Another Vtr Conversion

[309jazzpanda 41]

Hey guys I know there's a lot of vtr conversion questions on here. My 1993 205 gtx is a single point injection 1.4 think its a steel block model, 2 things is it worth changing to an alloy block version and put my injection manifold on, or what i was thinking was a vtr conversion as i have the fuel pump in the tank already so no trouble there. My main concern is about the loom, now i'm guessing my ecu won't work as it only runs the one injector instead of 4, but i'll try get a vtr ecu for that but whats it like to wire the dash up, have wired my 309 up so not shy there just wondered if people encounter issues here. also was it worth the conversion anyone that has. Thanks Andy

[Loose Hand Luke 6]

I'm just starting a VTR swap too mate.

I'm going from a carb'd TU3.

I've found I'll need a dual vehicle speed sensor so the mechanical speedo will still work and also the ecu will get an electrical signal.

Other than that I swapped the metal gearbox mount over to the VTR gearbox so that it'll use the normal 205 batt.tray/GB mount.

I'm having to play around with exhaust downpipes too as the VTR one tries to go through the steering rack.

Loom wise I pinched the whole engine bay loom from a 206 (it was all I could find in my local scrappy) that had the same engine and am working it in. Its not going badly so far, but for you I guess you may have some wires you can use already. I found that my 205 and 106 Haynes manuals held most of the electrical questions. My engine is a later silver top with a small single plug ecu, but I noticed that the earlier big square ecu's seemed to have the same plugs but different wiring connections. You may be able to swap the wires around in the plugs, wire more connections in and almost plug and play.

 

The other linkages and connections seemed to mate up fine really!