the new 50 mpg DD.............

[DEMON44]

Got ahold of a 1990 Jetta diesel..........and get this, from the original owner. 166,000km original when I got it last week. 5 speed. 2 door. mint mint. $1500. haven't actually calculated MPG........but Filled up early this week, got a couple hundred kilometers on it, tank has yet to come off full mark. I love it. No turbo though, it N/A.......but I can fix that easy enough


got the original bill of sale. $14,555.00 in Jan 1990. factory service book. owners manual.

 

[LOGANSTANFORTH]

turbo, injectors, 3200 governor spring, nitrous, few other goodies........since this is the mechanical injection pump it uses about 85% of the same parts a 1989-1993 cummins powered dodge does on their injection pumps, the 3200 governor spring being the best part......

 

[DEMON44]

nice one, I didn't know that! thought it looked familiar and being a bosch pump I though it might be same family at least.

 

[LOGANSTANFORTH]

same rebuild kit # from bosch......same with the governor spring.......most shops shouldnt charge over 250-300 to rebuild it......if its got alot of miles on it i would spend the 250 and get it redone and have the spring put in it........get rid of the factory airbox and a few other things and that baby should ride out.......my cummins pump is getting rebuilt and bench tweaked and tuned as we speak.......im going to assume your truck has a p-pump on it????

 

[DEMON44]

I've never had a VE pumped engine. 2 P7100 engines and a VP44 truck. I'm too cheap still to buy a HPCR cummins.

the VW pump, engine and car have exactly 100,000 original miles on it. It better still be ok. I'd do governor and fuel pin modifications myself.

 

[dbreid]

Coupe, too. Nice car, and a rare combination, too.

 

[Wrench]

Sweet deal!! Especially being such low mileage--and I didn't know that was the same pump as the early Cummins engine, that's a bonus!

 

[DEMON44]

thanks guys I thought it was a good score too. the line is that this is going to remain "stock" and serve as daily driver commuter. I've got other toys to hotrod and bang around with. I might give it some 17" rims and tires and bump the timing, and rob the turbo parts off a turbo'd engine.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Cool.

Is VW's parts system any better in Canada? I've had a few friends with VW's and it was far from impressive how often they got the "it has to come from Germany" line when they needed replacement parts slightly less common than the tune up necessities.

 

[86-1ton]

OOOOOOoooooooooooh lucky man...!

i had one (96 Passat, though) come into my shop for a state inspection... it failed because it needed new front struts, but i offered him $500 for it... he was nice and took my number, i hope to hear back... stick car, too...

 

[tRustyK5]

Friends of ours had an '86 or '87 Jetta diesel, car was always used a commuter and literally fell apart around the engine. Seats, doors, pretty much anything that 'moved' was wore out beyond description and it finally got hauled off to be crushed with 600,000 km on the engine. It still ran perfectly, and averaged 50+ mpg.

Good cars for sure. If I were you I'd make sure it's up to date an maintenance and leave it alone.

Rene

 

[DEMON44]

Oh I very likely will not touch it. I need reliable from this, I get enough ramjam and headaches from my z-28 and crewcab.

heres after a steam job. thats about all I'll do to it. changed the fuel filter. oil and filter was just done, but I'll do it again to go to synthetic. needs tires soon though. thats about it. some small tinker stuff to take care of too. nothing major.

 

[DEMON44]

So I've been running waste oil in it now the last couple months or so. Last month I spent $25 on diesel............and rolled out around 2000km on that month of fuel.

Was at 50/50 before, trying 75/25 this tank now thats its getting marginally warmer overnight.

 

[DEMON44]

turbo, injectors, 3200 governor spring, nitrous, few other goodies........since this is the mechanical injection pump it uses about 85% of the same parts a 1989-1993 cummins powered dodge does on their injection pumps, the 3200 governor spring being the best part......

so ok, couple things then. the VE in the little diesel cars has a mechanical timing advance, we know that right. Does the VE in on the 6B cummins have mechanical timing advance? I don't think it does. although its a VE bosch, I think it lacks the advance mechanism.

and my VW operators manual say it has a 4200 rpm governed engine speed already. I've got no tach in the car, but it sure gets sounds like it gets wound right up when you hold it to the floor.