Can an engine generally be placed in any vehicle as long as the harness and computer stays with the engine?
Feb 25, 2009 by Justin E | Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation
I am planning on putting an L61 Ecotec in a classic vw beetle. I have figured out tranny conversion, cooling, and mounting issues. My question: If I were to keep ECU, harness, and engine together would I be able to run it in my beetle? How tough will
Technically, yes. Realistically, maybe.
If you can get it in there and properly mounted there is no reason why it should not work. Sounds like an interesting project.
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VW wiring Harness
Here are two wiring harnesses.
Trial By Smoke: Racing LeMons in a 1963 Corvair
To build a car with a horizontally-opposed aluminum āpancakeā flat-six engine mounted somewhere between the parcel shelf and Helsinki, then pass it off as a family sedan as well as a coupe, a pickup truck, a station wagon, a six-door passenger van as well as a windowless panel variant, for which the engine presumably serves double duty as a taco truckās food warmer.
Yet its reputation for lift-off oversteer and tragic swing-axle suspension designāthe same as on the legendary Mercedes 300SL, and thereās one reason why surviving examples are so rareāhas all but become a bedtime story passed on from generation to generation of budding Chevy enthusiasts. Ā Oh sure, theyāll tell you, it wasnāt that bad, they corrected the suspension design for the 1965 model year! If you keep your tires properly inflated, it drives perfectly well! A 1972 study concluded that it was no more dangerous than its contemporaries! Porsche, Mercedes, and VW used the same design too! That Nader jerk had an agenda! Eventually, all their kvetching sounds like frantic apologizing, like a frazzled dinner host who tries to ignore the catastrophic stove fire and asks you what you thought of the floral displays. Itās easy to write off their ceaseless harping and focus on the negatives, which I did.
Which is why I questioned Jim Brennanās sanity as well as my own when he, team captain and Corvair tamer extraordinaire, offered me a seat in a 1963 Corvair sedan as part of Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer. This car, as you may recall, won the Index of Effluency at last yearās LeMons New England, for being the only team foolhardy enough to run what was then the oldest car to ever enter a LeMons race. Had it been any other claptrap $500 racer, maybe I wouldnāt have been so nervous. Yet this was not only a rusty, 40-year old, rear-engined, swing-axled, metal-dashboard American sedan cheaply converted for road racing duty, but it also had its scrappy underdog reputation to...
