Mk1 golf DTA ECU wiring

A picture would help a lot thanks. I can then use it to see what I can find that will do the same job. I don't suppose off the top of your head you know the stud size on the mk1 chassis for the engine earth do you?

 

Ah right no worries my car is up at the bodyshop so can't check. I'll pop around my mates and have a butchers then .

 

Rubjohnny do you mean you have exactly the same battery fusebox on your mk2 as me then? Be interesting to see a pic of how it all goes together. A mate was saying it's best to keep the gearbox/engine to chassis/battery chunky earth cable as short as possible. I can't see why this would matter at all unless I'm missing something? It's going to be quite long by the time I've finished but probably not much longer than the mk3 to be fair.

 

Cheers again! Would it be possible to get a few photos of it please? I'll see if the live cable is available from VW still.
On another note is there any reason why I can't install my ECU inlet air temp sensor in the piping from the intercooler outlet close to the throttle body as opposed to having to strip and modify my inlet manifold?.

 

It's a 16vg60 engine so supercharged as well so the temps will change a fair bit from the inlet but hopefully not so much from the intercooler outlet pipe just before the throttle body?

 

Well I made quite a meal out of it but got there in the end, thanks for the help as always Johnny



I didn't need to take much material out of the busbar to get it onto the stud thankfully.
What are those fuses called that go in there and where can I get them from?.
Plan is to use a ring terminal crimped and soldered onto the starter lead at the battery end then the same at the starter itself. I'll probably end up getting these big cables done by a professional as I'm not sure I could get a good result in the vice.

 

That will be fine, it's where mine is.

 

Thanks sparrow saves me having to strip out my inlet manifold to drill it. I'm going to ask my local vw parts guy what those fuses are and if he can get hold of them. Unfortunately we don't have many scrappies left round here

 

Managed a little more progress. Got the cable for starter, alternator and earth and used my crimping to for some heavy duty crimps. Don't look very tidy but they seem well crimped;














I was going to attempt to solder them as well but I doubt my puny little iron would manage.
Here's the engine that all this work is for. It's pretty much built now after a lot of work. Just need a car to put it in! Still in the bodyshop buy hopefully early new year will see it painted.

 

Cheers was going to add some heatshrink, I left it off just in case I decided to try to solder the joint as well but don't really think it's needed.
I've ordered a coolant temperature gauge which I'm hoping to fit where the ashtray once was in the dashboard along with two other gauges. I've also ordered the audi 80 VDO gauge holder with facia plate and I'm hoping this will fit here without too much modification.
I've been searching for a duel coolant temp sender unit so as I can supply the standard dash gauge along with my aftermarket gauge. Then I remembered fitting a blank in the head so I'm hoping this will have the same thread as the standard temp sender m10 X 1 as that's what my aftermarket gauge is supplied with.

 

I ordered my gauge which comes with a m10 X 1 sender so ill just whip the plug out and pop that one in there. My ECU temp sender is in the m10 slot but that's all I need now . Just hoping I don't have to chop my dash up to get the audi 80 bracket to fit in where the ashtray once was.
Currently messing around with making a bracket to mount the ECU in the scuttle area then a big push in the new year to get some paint on the shell so I can actually start putting things back together.