What I was up to Last Friday, ABF swap in 10 hours!

if you run abf managment the MK2 8v digifant pump & lines will work perfectly, if you run KR managment then you need a KR pump & lines.

If your car is a 91 the ABF loom will be pretty much plug n play, but you'll end up with a fair few spare plugs hanging about in the bay with nothing to connect to, plus some plugs & wire lengths for the MK2 stuff you keep may differ also. Either an 8v or 16v bay loom will do you if you want to strip the abf loom and combine it, the engine bits you'll keep from the ABF loom anyway

As for engine mounts, use the MK2 G60/16v rear engine mount and 1.3 carby box and front mounts, unbolt all the ABF engine brackets and bolt on the old ones off your 8v

I would leave strippign the ABF down till you know it works, you dont actualky need to replace any of the head internals unless you fit MEGA cams, the stock ones are more than capable of runnign on fast road cams. Other issue with fitting uber cams is if you go to far the stock ecu cant cope! You can get 160-170 on an ABF without even trying really a decent remap on its own gets you close to that.

As you can see, swapping the actual engine doesnt take long, its all the preperation work that takes time. do as much as you can before you even get a spanner anywhere near the car

Trev unfortunatly I have a full time job so weekends only
I might be able to fit you in if the weather is ok, I have a wur swap and heater matrix to go in on saturday, do you have a new head to go on it?

 

well you know what they say, practice makes perfect! this is engine #4

 

You can use a fair ammount of the ABF bits, oil cooler and filter housing etc are all the same, use all the abf alternator, pas pump, coolant hoses etc if they're included or bolt on the old kr bits. Basically its a case of swapping over bits that are different, and keeping bits that will fit

Main things that need swapping over are the temp sensors on the side of the head, coolant flange on the front of the block, inlet manifold, dizzy and a MK2 clutch. New timing belt is recommended, but check which tensioner it has on there as they changed later in the production years, the late ones got a self tensioning one which is more expensive than the KR one. You can swap to the old type though simply by removing the stud off the side and fitting the KR one in it place!