I have a VW Polo 6n 1996 and I have a VW Polo 2000 now to make this easier to explain my 1996 Polo is my midfield one to a good standards and the 2000 one is standerd they’re both 1.4 8v 59bhp so virtually the same engine obviously apart from engine codes.

 

 

im looking at swapping out the engine in my 1996 due to having 150,000 on the clock and unfortunately a brick hit my gear linkages underneeth and made the whole gear selection messed up 👎🏽. How easy would it be to swap the engines out? And obviously the gear box with it...

 

What sort of complications am I looking at as how relitively easy would it be? I have worked on this car to many times and have a really good understanding of it.. 

 

Hopefully someone can shed some light haha! 

The 96 & 2000 models use different gear selector setups, the 96 is a rod change and the 2000 is a cable change, luckily for you it is possible to fit the 2000 gearbox into a 96 model but not the other way as the 96 gearbox doesn't have the required mounting points for the cable change setup

If I swap the gearbox and engine completely from my 2000 model would that bypass that whole problem? I was looking to just do a complete swap of engine and gearbox and put it stright In

Just a thought, the 2000 is it a 6N1 or 6N2 ?  as it's on the changeover year, if it's a 6N2 then your engine and ECU control will be totally different and so making the engine swap more complicated 

Luckily they’re both 6n1 both look very similar to the eye pretty much identical would a picture help you at all haha!

In that case it makes it a lot easier 

I’m hoping it’s going to be somewhat easy as such! The only difference is that the 2000 runs the key like in the polo 6n2 the more thicker one where the 1996 runs a slimmer key would that mean any difference regarding ECU ext.. 

The key shape has nothing to do with the ECU, as  you won't be swapping the immobiliser box that will remain matched to your current 96 key, and you should be able to retain the original ECU depending on the enigine codes

The best thing to do is I’ll have a look at the engine codes tomorrow hopefully they’re the same and the I can just drop it stright in without any real big problems I didn’t want to get into any wiring because that’s when I’m way out my depth haha 

On the V5 logbook the first three letters of the engine serial number is the engine code, makes it easier than trying to find it on the block 

so I’ve looked into the engine codes and one is an APQ engine and the other a AEX what sort of things am I looking at haha 

I thought they would be the codes 🙂  good news is the wiring from the ECU to engine is all the same pin connections, only thing you will have to do is swap the engine loom from the AEX onto the APQ as the AEX uses a big round connector to the car side of the wiring, and the APQ uses 2 rectangular plugs for the same job

How easy is that bud? Is it a case of just unplugging one and taking out that loom and plugging in the other haha  

Yeah just unplug every connector on the engine, like the injectors, throttle body etc might be a few cable ties to cut and swap it onto the APQ  

Great! I’m gonna give it ago this weekend if the weather allows haha! I’ll give you an update