2.0l 16v - need help with 1.8 head on 2.0 bottom end

[jason@scirocco.org (Jason)]

On mine, the holes were in the right places for the dowels, but one wasn't 
deep enough.  A dremel and 5 minutes fixed that.

I felt the same way as you did though -- it's strange that no one had ever 
mentioned that to me before...
Jason



At 04:16 AM 9/11/2002, T. Reed wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>The swap has been going good. Finished up all my head and engine bay work
>and got the new shortblock and the tranny bolted together today and slid
>it under the car so I could put the head on (it wouldn't fit under the
>front if I put the head on outside the engine bay).
>
>I set the head gasket in place (it's a Goetze 2.0l 16v) and then went to
>set the head on top and bolt it down but I noticed that the dowels do not
>line up. They line up fine with the gasket but not the head. On the 1.8
>16v head, the dowels are directly in the middle of the #1 and #4
>cylinders. On the 2.0 block, the dowels are in the middle of the #1
>cylinder and about 1/4 of the way across the #4 cylinder. I tried setting
>the head on and it left a scrape mark (on the outside, unimportant part of
>the head) where the dowel was, plus I could tell the head was not seated.
>
>So it won't just bolt up.
>
>Now I suppose my options here are to either grind down the dowel (prefer
>not to) or to grind a small groove in the outside of the 1.8 head where
>the dowel was hitting in order to make it work.
>
>I thought this was a bolt-on no-mods swap.. ?!? I guess not..
>
>I can't find anything about this on google or vwvortex so please respond
>if you have any info as this is holding my project up.
>
>Thanks in advance!!
>
>-Toby
>
>
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