retrofitting bosch ve pump on ford td

be a bit of messing about , but its doable I reckon,.

Cheers for the link I'll sign up later on and ask on there


If the car wasn't a daily I'd just get the bits and start experimenting, but as it is I can't afford to have the car in bits for unknown amount of time unfortunately

The problem with doing this is that the pump will be calibrated for the VW engine and may have different fuel delivery volume, different advance curve and god knows what else to the Ford. You may end up with an engine that smokes to hell, is completely lacking in power or is totally undriveable in the mid range. A very hit and miss change. Just because it fits doesn't mean that it will work!!

we started with a old ford enduro tdi with the curse word electronic pump in a suzuki jimny trailer
we used a land rover 200tdi bosch pump, we fount it funny as it was the first time we`ve had to down the fueling from stock,

parts wise we had to machine down the inside of the ford injection pump timing pulley slightly to clear the land rover drive inj pump
and time the injection pump 90 degrees advanced (i think it was a while ago now) and we played around with the timing a bit before we were happy, it defiantly will not work if you use the ford timing pins with a 200tdi pump anyway

probably some other bits ive forgot as well because we did it one afternoon while work was quiet

result are
throttle response it massively improved
it now starts reliably, with the electronics unplugged onthe ford injn pump (remember fitting in a jimny) it would take a few good cranks before it started and would hunt for idle constantly as well as other odd things
power also seems to be improved massively with much more low end torque due to the fuel map of the bigger engines inj pump
top end is now limited by the small turbo, but a bigger VGT turbo should up the power some
it would run on veg
fuel mpg is unknown as its just a trailer

if you don't have access to a lathe then your screwed using a 200tdi pump
and if you don't have good modfying skills then your also screwed
yes the inj pump just bolts in place of the old ford pump but theres lots of things that need modifying
fuel pipes, wiring, injection pipes need tweaking etc etc etc etc

so if your not used to doing this sort of thing then probably give up the sweet idea
or better buy a spare engine,pump and get it up and running on a pallet than transfer it onto your daily

hope that helps
mat

Cheers for the advice

I'm a engineer by trade so I have access to a lathe ect if need be. Fuel pipe wise I was hoping I could use the ones off a non turbo ford VE pump but if not I'm sure I can sort something out.

I'm not sure how similar the ford VE and VW VE pumps are, my thinking was that if they are the same basic pump then stuff like the pulley and fuel pipes maybe interchangeable. So with the right mixture of parts it might be a straightforward bolt on and time up job, probably not like but one can hope

As for mot's that shouldn't really be an issue, my car is coalin as it is. I had to turn the pump up on it just to get it to be able to get out of junctions and over take safely. These cars are monumentally dog slow as standard. The bosch VE from the mk2 golf gtd has a lot of adjustability in it so I should be able to tune it to this engine well enough