swapping motors 87 cabriolet to 82 jetta, what's involved???

Well... I think I have convinced myself I am buying yet another car... it's got a super nice body and interior... it's an 82 Jetta with a blown head. i have a complete good engine still in an 87 cabriolet parts car that I would like to swap over... but what else would I have to change? i could tell from the 2 seconds I looked at the car that the jetta had a different a/c compressor (don't know if it works... don't know if the cabriolet one works either... which is a better system and is everything else in the system the same other than the compressor?), the distributor, and a couple other things that i didn't get a close look at... also, the cabrillet has a 5spd and the jetta has an automatic... anything going to bolt up differently? I know on the aircooleds, the automatics had a slightly different engine.

I'm really getting (what I think is) a sweet deal on this jetta... but I need to be sure that I can swap the engine over... only thing the jetta is lacking is a sunroof!!! but man, this car is worth what I am paying for it in parts alone! thins thing is NICE!!!!

Go for it! :-) Should be an easy engine swap although I am not sure if your 87 engine has a knock sensor on it. The 87's injectors might be higher flowing than the 82s.

later, dave

I went back to look at the car today... poor thing only had 57k on the odometer!!!! no wonder it is so nice!!!

It looks super clean. Please save it! :-) later, dave Reminder........ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. Frieda Norris

no way would i trash a 57,000 mile a1 jetta!!! hopefully i can have a new engine (if really needed) in it in a couple weeks... i will let my mom drive it, she goes maybe 10 miles/week... I am thinking by 2010 it may get 60,000 miles on it that way ;-)

Why the hell can't I find cars like that in Canada...

cause there is more rust and salt up there eh????