citroen zx engine into a citroen dispatch van

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 26 Oct 2012, 00:09

i currently have a 2005 citroen dispatch van with the 1.9 non turbo engine and was wondering if the engine out of my 1.9 turbo diesel zx will fit in the van. if so will i need to swap the gearbox as well. hopefully it will be a straight swap.

thanks in advance

wotwot · Post by **wotwot** » 26 Oct 2012, 21:09

2005 engine will be an HDI unit.
Dont think they fitted that beast in th ZX they were all xud I believe.
I have an early dispatch 98 which I put a zx engine in without any problems.
Is the engine completely dead as in cambelt broke, con rod out the side or similar.
Hdi engines should be plentyful at the breakers at reasonable cost.

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 27 Oct 2012, 03:20

The engine in my van is an xud 1.9 non turbo. the engine isnt broken its just painfully slow so as the zx has many rust holes i thought i would drop the engine in as its a turbo diesel model. when you did yours did you use the zx gearbox. just i think if i use the one on the van the ratios will be all wrong.

thanks

wotwot · Post by **wotwot** » 27 Oct 2012, 10:08

Now thats strange!!.your van must be LEZ compliant being a 2005 model.
If it just the xud engine it should bolt straight in. Mine was from a 19 zx turbo, but I did'nt use the turbo so a little bit of swapping and changing but bolts straight onto the van box.
Whats the milage of the van mine is happy to cruise along at 75 and take its self upto 85 and my engine has about 140000, the van is on about 220000.
The accelleration wont stick you to the back of your seat

but I dont worry about it.
Be interesting to know about the engine fitted to such a late van. Sounds like LEZ compliant engine but still a chip oil burner.

spider · Post by **spider** » 27 Oct 2012, 11:08

Could well be a DW8, they were fitted to commercials around that time just not the standard passenger cars.

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 27 Oct 2012, 13:55

dont think my van will be lez complient the tax is 120 for six months. i think that worse case scenario i will have to use the gearbox on the van and then the ratios will be wrong but it will work i suppose

wotwot · Post by **wotwot** » 27 Oct 2012, 15:06

No the gearbox will be fine !!, as your not changing that just the engine.
Still intrigued about the lez compliance bit as I need a new van to get inside the M25 lol.
Could you check to see if it is or is'nt please dudarus1 it will satisfy my curiosity

I'll even put a direct link for you lol.

https://lowemissionzone.tfl.gov.uk/b/pb ... eVRM.faces" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 28 Oct 2012, 08:27

just checked for you and it is compliante which is weird because the van doesnt have a dpf or anything like that

wotwot · Post by **wotwot** » 28 Oct 2012, 08:45

Thats it then I'll be looking for a van with a non hdi engine.
Whats actually wrong with your van that you need to put the turbo in.
Is it acceleration or top speed your looking for. Subject to which pump you have they can be tweaked to give you a bit more grunt.
I'll have a browse later to see if I can find the topic about tweaking the pump.

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 28 Oct 2012, 17:52

wotwot wrote:Thats it then I'll be looking for a van with a non hdi engine.
Whats actually wrong with your van that you need to put the turbo in.
Is it acceleration or top speed your looking for. Subject to which pump you have they can be tweaked to give you a bit more grunt.
I'll have a browse later to see if I can find the topic about tweaking the pump.

its using quite alot of oil and its accelaration is rubbish. plus if i drop the zx engine in then i can run on wvo as it has a bosh pump

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 28 Oct 2012, 17:54

when you took your engine out of your van did u have to take it out from the top or the bottom as it doesnt look like theres alot of room at the top the engine is set back abit

wotwot · Post by **wotwot** » 28 Oct 2012, 19:41

NO NO NO.
Take the front off including the front cross member, comes out and goes in with a good trolly jack.

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 28 Oct 2012, 19:44

wotwot wrote:NO NO NO.
Take the front off including the front cross member, comes out and goes in with a good trolly jack.

thank you for the advice mate

wotwot · Post by **wotwot** » 28 Oct 2012, 19:48

No problem If you get stuck along the way give a shout on here and we'll guide you through as best we can.

dudarus1 · Post by **dudarus1** » 26 Nov 2012, 21:38

right finally got round to doing the conversion due to killing the van in the floods. the conversion looks straight forward engine will be out of the van tmoz but the engine in the zx has a different top engine mount and im not sure it it will be a problem. ive included some pics so you lot can let me know what you think ?

heres the links

vans top engine mount
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9pivkit8tqra ... .47.50.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

citroen zx engine mount
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f34804v1ibgpk ... .48.20.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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