the german wrote:PM me your email address and I'll send you the ABZ wiring diagrams
Done, thank you!
PRY4SNO wrote:Nice score on the junkyard springs/struts! Bilstein/Vogtland?
Yep, off of a B5. I think I got charged $40 total.
Grillage wrote:This isn't a total pinout, but It shows what most of the ABZ harness that you'll need actually does. It's my ABZ to VEMS spreadsheet I did for my cq swap.
Thanks for the continued help.
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Went and made a table of every wire/connector that I have to deal with on the relay panel side of the ABZ harness. I still have a lot of blank spots, but I'm working through it. I am confident I have enough to get the engine running. Once I doucment all that, I will post up.
Next thing I wanted to look into was the flywheel/clutch/trans.
The TTV flywheel and engine dimensions can be seen ROUGHLY in the drawing below. Engine left, flywheel right.

Not sure how much sense that makes, but the 43mm is basically the hub the flywheel gets centered on, and there is a 35mm ID bore in the crankshaft where the bushing was pressed in for the automatic flex plate to center on. I have pulled that out, because it interferes with the flywheel.
The flywheel has a stepped bore, of 43mm then down to 35mm. The pilot bearing that most 01A cars use is 24mm in the OD and 15mm ID (needle bearing).
I contacted TTV and they suggest the pilot bearing goes into the crank, if I do that, I will need a long adapter to make the pilot bearing stick out enough to engage the input shaft of the transmission.
My original thought before contacting them, was to machine the auto bushing I pulled out already to press into the 35mm bore on the flywheel, retaining the shoulder on the backside. I would also bore out the bushing to 24mm so the regualar pilot bearing can be pressed in. I have a good idea where the bearing needs to sit but I figured I can control engagment just by making sure my fit is tight enough. Therefore I can just push the bearing in/out as needed until I have perfect engagement.
Anyone see a downside to having the bearing in the flywheel as I described? If there is such thing as a needle bearing that will fit the 01A input shaft and has a 35mm OD that would be great as well.
Quck sketch of what I mean, the new bushing is green. The internal bore is 24mm press for the pilot bearing.

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One last thing. This is the backside of the engine, bare.

The V8 had two metal rings, one below the flex and one above it. I assume I dont use either of these? I can't use the one that goes on top for obvious reasons, and the one that goes below make it so there is no where for the flywheel to center to. The only solution for this would be to make up a pilot bearing adapter that sits in the crank, and also doubles as the centering feature for the flwheel.
Without the spacer the flywheel seems to have good starter engagement, but I think either way, with/without it the starter will engage fine. The spacer is only about 2-3mm thick.
With spacer:

A quick measurement shows me that with the crank sensor location in the transmission I probably do not want to run the spacer, as the hole seems about centered on the 60-2 feature on the flywheel.