Seat Leon engine swap

[leonr32]

Hi all I have a seat Leon m1 1.4s and I'm looking at doing a engine swap I have doing everything els I can do to the car brakes have been done to its on coilovers etc so just want do engine I been told that a 1.8 turbo/2.3 v5/2.8 v6/3.2 v5 all drop in is that right? But wot I really want no is how much of the loom is plug and play and how much have I got wire up my self???? And out of all the engines what one is most simple to do?

 

[Mo Arif]

Not worth it, cheaper to buy a lc/lcr now

 

[seatcupramad23]

Not worth it, cheaper to buy a lc/lcr now

+1 sell your car and buy a cupra there cheap enough now , or save a little bit more and buy mo s its spanking

 

[leonr32]

Thing is if I do swap my self it will cost less than buying a Cupra plus my insurance is cheaper if I keep this and do the swap

 

[leonr32]

Things is I have just put new coilover on its got. £1300 bbs wheels full recaro all new dried/grove disc all round plus loads more etc so be daft to sell it

 

[seatcupramad23]

But if you declare tge conversion which you should or the insurance on your car would be void, im all for engine conversions but dont convert whaf you can buy , if you said vr6 engine with a turbo id say hell yeah

 

[leonr32]

My insurance no everything that been done to my car and I have rang them for a price with a r32 engine and it still cheaper

 

[leonr32]

So wot I'm asking is how hard is the loom to wire in to the dash loom

 

[james.l]

Can be done, get yourself a copy of elsawin and etka

 

[leonr32]

And wot is that lol?

 

[Alexis27]

Get hold of a Toledo V5. A project like that would be worthwhile because it would be unique.

 

[RDS1972]

To add fuel to the fire about this, I agree a unique (ish) Toledo would be interesting, maybe with something like this as a donor....
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3456692.htm

As it's s 4 cylinder, i would have thought most of the chassis work you've done could carry over. So then it's just a case of either putting this running gear in yours, or swapping the bits the other way.
Add the left overs to the remaining car which you could then sell to recoup some of your money....

 

[seatcupramad23]

you can buy a full cupra now for around £800 running but i argue again don't build what you can buy , if your gonna do a conversion do something worth while like . 2.7 bi turbo out of s4 or a6 which are really cheap these days and aren't as over sensored like the cupra

 

[MPJ88]

If you get a cupra you can just swap over your wheels, suspension and interior.

Put the cupra stuff on yours and sell it.

Kind of with seatcupramad23 on this, if you were going for something different like and r32 or biturbo block i'd understand.

 

[leonr32]

Well I am wantin a v5/v6 in it really

 

[leonr32]

How big a job is it take make a 2.7 bi turbo engine fit

 

[seatcupramad23]

iof it fits in mk4 golf it will fit in a leon http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDI-S4-3...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2c630d5964
something like this, or this

 

[leonr32]

So just bolts in then wot bout gear box?

 

[seatcupramad23]

will be custom work , like mounts , gearbox is a difficult one but thinking you could use s4 gearbox and remove transfer with custom driveshaft ?

 

[leonr32]

That y I want something that will just bolt in as I will only have one week to do it in befor it need be back on road