So I have a 81 rabbit with the NA 1.6L and fixed the car up all nice and it looks great and shouldnt rust away anytime soon, plan on driving it a while. Turns out the injection pump started to leak and I always told myself since I bought this thing that if I have to many issues with this sissy engine I would just do a swap!
So I got a 98 jetta front clip, I've done tons of reading and research on here about this swap so I know what to expect what I can do what I shouldn't do and so on! One question I have so far for anyone that has done the swap or anyone that may have a solution is. The 81 rabbit controls the inside temp by a heater control valve that restricts coolant into the heater core, from what I can tell the 98 jetta uses a blend door and coolant always passes threw the heater core. So in order for my rabbit to still use all the original heater controls and such I need to be able to restrict coolant into the heater core or my ass is gonna burn up all the time! So my worry is that if I put a heater control valve like the mk1 has in the heater core line that I may screw something up by restricting coolant flow to or from the egr cooler that the engine was designed for? Im thinking that somehow I need to have a bypass hose to bypass the heater core when the heat is turned off that way the coolant can still flow properly and not harm the engine, I'm just unsure on how to make or do that with a single cable pull?
So I got a 98 jetta front clip, I've done tons of reading and research on here about this swap so I know what to expect what I can do what I shouldn't do and so on! One question I have so far for anyone that has done the swap or anyone that may have a solution is. The 81 rabbit controls the inside temp by a heater control valve that restricts coolant into the heater core, from what I can tell the 98 jetta uses a blend door and coolant always passes threw the heater core. So in order for my rabbit to still use all the original heater controls and such I need to be able to restrict coolant into the heater core or my ass is gonna burn up all the time! So my worry is that if I put a heater control valve like the mk1 has in the heater core line that I may screw something up by restricting coolant flow to or from the egr cooler that the engine was designed for? Im thinking that somehow I need to have a bypass hose to bypass the heater core when the heat is turned off that way the coolant can still flow properly and not harm the engine, I'm just unsure on how to make or do that with a single cable pull?