Turbo continued...

Spun the compressor side of the turbo to match the alignment of the K14 on the AAZ, so now the turbo is pretty much in position.

Also made up an oil feed pipe temporarily by straightening out the original one from the Sharan and shortening it. Route is pretty much right, its just a bit wibbly wobbly in places...

Thats pretty much as much as I can do with the engine out, so the next step is to pull the AAZ, swap the engine mounts, sump and a few other bits and pieces over... then chuck the AFN in,

Loom Stripped...

It looks daunting, all that wiring laid out on the floor...

In reality its not that bad.
There are a lot of wires granted, but most of them arent needed. All the wiring for the lights, ABS, AirCon, Radiator Fans... etc. All gone.

What i'm left with is this:

The bags are the connectors to various points on the engine. The big connector in the middle of the bags in the lower left of the image is the main ECU connection. The stuff in between is wire.

There are something like 18 wires now that dont connect to anything. Some from the ECU, others from various plugs. Basically, theres some power wires, some earths, Glow plug wiring and a few others I've yet to figure out.
Some of them are for the cruise control and speed sensor, which I'll be using.
And also the all important OBD port connections.

My aim is to have the loom pretty much "plug and play" by the time i'm ready to put the engine in.

Oh and heres a pic of the 7kg of wiring and connectors that wasnt needed...