BUILDING A SKODA OCTAVIA VRS WITH AN AUDI RS3 ENGINE!! PT.2...

Summary

The video follows a car enthusiast restoring two VRS Octavia cars. After acquiring damaged engines from each car, he plans to take the good RS3 engine and install it into the red Octavia body. He removes body panels and engines, realizing the engines have different codes, likely making them incompatible. Despite this setback, he remains determined, seeking workarounds and ordering new parts to continue the project. The reality of complex auto repairs is revealed through both triumphs and challenges.

Takeaways

• 😀 The video is about working on an Audi RS3 engine swap project for an Octavia VRS
• 🚗 There are two Octavia VRS cars, one with a good engine and one with a broken engine
• 🔧 The plan is to take the good RS3 engine from a damaged RS3 and put it in the red Octavia VRS
• 🚦 The RS3 engine needs damaged parts replaced before it can go in the Octavia VRS
• 💵 The project is already racking up expenses for new parts needed
• 🔥 There was some fire damage to the RS3 engine's turbo and intake
• 👷‍♂️ The engine will be removed from the white Octavia VRS through the front
• 🤔 The white Octavia had less damage than expected for a Cat N car
• 😟 The RS3 engine is a different code than the Octavia VRS engine
• ⏳ More research is needed to see if the engines can be swapped

Q & A

What cars are involved in the project?

There are two Skoda Octavia vRS cars - one red and one white. There is also an RS3 engine and gearbox that will be going into the red Octavia.

What is the goal of the project?

The goal is to take the good RS3 engine and put it into the red Octavia vRS to improve its performance. The original engine in the red Octavia was bad.

What damage did the RS3 engine have?

The RS3 engine had some fire damage, a damaged turbo, damaged rocker covers and engine mounts. Some new parts will need to be ordered.

Why can't the GTR project proceed at the moment?

The GTR needs to go on a jig to be worked on but there is not enough space in the workshop. It is waiting for another local shop that has space on their jig.

What accessories are being removed to get the engine out of the white Octavia?

The front bumper, wings, wheel liners, slam panel and airbox are being removed to improve access to take the engine out through the front of the car.

How will the battery be relocated?

Because the RS3 engine is larger, the battery will likely need to be moved to the boot for more space.

What was the bad news discovered about the Octavia engines?

The engine codes were completely different between the two Octavia vRS models indicating they may not be compatible for swapping parts.

What is the upload schedule planned?

The goal is to upload one vRS project video per week on Sundays. Additional videos on other projects will be uploaded during the week.

What punctured the turbocharger?

It appears debris entered and damaged the turbocharger after the RS3 engine was in an accident.

How can additional project updates be accessed?

By subscribing to the YouTube channel, viewers can get notifications when new project update videos are uploaded.

Outlines

00:00

😃 Introducing the Octavia VRS engine swap project

The narrator provides an overview of the Octavia VRS engine swap project involving two Octavias. The goal is to take the good RS3 engine from the damaged red Octavia and transplant it into the white Octavia with the broken engine.

05:03

👷‍♂️ Removing damaged parts from the RS3 engine

The narrator begins disassembling the damaged RS3 engine from the red Octavia to assess what needs replacing. The turbo and exhaust components are found to be damaged and will need replacing.

10:03

🚚 Bringing the white Octavia into the workshop

The white Octavia with the broken engine is brought into the workshop. The front end damage is assessed and found to be mostly superficial. The engine will be removed by taking off the front end of the car.

15:04

😥 Discovering the engine difference between the Octavias

While starting to remove the engine from the white Octavia, the narrator discovers the engine code is completely different than the RS3 engine. This presents a major potential compatibility issue.

Keywords

💡Engine swap

The main activity in the video is performing an engine swap on an Audi RS3 by taking the engine from a crashed RS3 and putting it into an Octavia vRS. This complex process involves removing the original engine from the Octavia, prepping the RS3 engine by replacing damaged parts, and then installing the upgraded RS3 engine into the Octavia chassis.

💡Damaged parts

Since the RS3 engine came from a crashed car, it has some damaged components like the turbo, rocker cover, engine mounts etc. These all need to be replaced with new OEM parts before the engine can be transplanted into the Octavia.

💡Adapter pipes

Because the project is upgrading the Octavia with the newer RS3 engine, some adapter pipes are needed to connect the intake and oil lines from the new engine to fit the Octavia chassis and powertrain.

💡Facelift

The RS3 received a facelift update, so some of its parts are different. This requires sourcing the right facelift parts like the intake, intercooler pipes, and turbo that are compatible with the engine upgrade.

💡Engine codes

The narrator discovers the Octavia vRS engine has a different engine code than the RS3 engine. This could indicate compatibility issues, so more research is needed to see if the engines can be swapped.

💡Front end removal

To extract the original vRS engine and install the upgraded RS3 engine, the front bumper, lights, crash bars, and other components are removed to allow access through the front of the car.

💡Battery relocation

Because the new RS3 engine is larger, the battery has to be moved from its original location on top of the transmission to the rear boot area to make space.

💡Unexpected problems

Swapping engines is complex and the narrator explains there will likely be unexpected problems along the way. This highlights the troubleshooting nature required for custom powertrain upgrades.

💡Parts ordering

Many new OEM and aftermarket parts need to be ordered to facilitate the engine transplant and get the RS3 engine ready for install. There is a constant process of identifying and sourcing parts.

💡Build series

This engine swap is an ongoing, multi-video build series. Viewers are directed to watch previous episodes to understand the full context and progress of the ambitious project.

Highlights

The project involves swapping an RS3 engine into an Octavia vRS to upgrade its performance

The RS3 engine comes from a damaged car so needs repaired and new parts ordered before fitting

The original Octavia engine will be moved to another Octavia that will be sold to help fund the project

The RS3 engine has an aluminum block instead of iron, and a better turbo allowing for more power gains when tuned

The original turbo is damaged and unserviceable so will be replaced with the RS3 "dazer" turbo

Adapter pipes and a new actuator are needed for the dazer turbo install, costing over £250

The engine will be removed through the front of the car after removing damaged body panels

There is surprisingly little damage to the Octavia apart from easily repairable body panels

The battery tray needs removed as the RS3 engine is bigger and may need the battery relocated

The engine codes between the RS3 donor engine and Octavia are completely different

This engine code difference may cause compatibility issues with swapping parts between engines

Videos will aim to be weekly during the project build despite delays waiting for parts

This is the first major issue holding up progress but is common with complex projects

The videos give an inside look at the realities and challenges with engine swap projects

Additional videos will help fill time during delays to keep providing content

Transcripts

we are back on the scoda Octavia vrs3

project guys we have one Octavia we have

two octavias we have an RS3 engine and

gearbox with subframe as well and we've

got a broken Octavia vrs 2 L engine too

now for those of you new to the channel

That haven't seen this video before go

click in the top right hand corner go

watch the project up to date so you

understand what I'm telling you but a

quick recap good engine bad engine bad

engine you just saw good engine going in

the red one RS3 engine

going in here that's pretty much what

we're doing so in today's video we're

going to be stripping down the RS3

engine cuz this also come out of a

damaged

RS3 um so there's actually quite a lot

of damaged Parts on here so we need to

strip those down start ordering new

parts so when we get the white one in

and the engine out of that we can then

fit this in all ready to go but in

between doing that when we take the

engine out of this one which is good I

need to put it in the red one and sell

the red one now I don't know if I've

just helped you or confused you I think

I've pretty much confused myself

explaining all that uh yeah just go with

me and for those of you asking about the

GTR it needs to go on a jig which is

what the hold up is about I was trying

to get my own jig but there's just not

enough room really in this Workshop to

do that uh so I have found someone local

to me that's going to get it on the jig

but I'm just literally waiting uh for

them to be able to do it and on compete

for cars now guys is the t-rock that I

just recently rebuilt now this is HPI

clear low mileage only a year old so

you've got manufacturers warranty

remaining tickets are only 99 go grab

them only 50% of the tickets are sold so

far guys so go grab a ticket it's a

great little car and there's also a

20,000 cash alternative if you don't

fancy the car so as I said we'll start

off with the RS3 engine and start taking

Parts off of this and I'm going to write

a list go to Audi directly ring up and

see how much they're going to pull my

pants down for all new parts cuz uh we

need like rocker covers damaged there

we've got the turbo outlets and inlets

although I have a dazer turbo now I just

thought i' pause it there cuz I keep

saying the word dazzer and realize that

not everyone's going to know what I'm

going on about dazzer relates to the

engine code of the new facelifted RS3 8

engine it has an aluminum block instead

of an iron block which is what this one

has and it also has a different turbo

now the turbo on the facelift the dazer

turbo is actually a better turbo and has

better gains when you remap them which

is why I'm changing it to that so now

you know uh so I need to actually give

them a regge from a facelift RS3 cuz

we're going to need facelift intake

pipes and intercooler pipes as well cuz

I I think they're going to be slightly

different um I also need to Source a

down pipe as well because uh yeah this

one's no good because obviously it's a

pre-f facelift downpipe uh we also need

engine mounts gearbox and um engine

there is a few other bits um I actually

just noticed a minute ago a bit of fire

damage in here as well cuz that pipe's

been burnt and there looks like a maybe

a few little flames in there so

hopefully that's nothing I'm I'm hoping

that's just something's rested against

ah there we go look I think it's just

something's rested against the exhaust

when the crash

happened uh probably this pipe actually

that would make sense and it's got hot

melted little bit of a fire hopefully

nothing too bad um we need um cooler

pipes for the gearbox we need a new

gearbox casing cuz that's broke yeah

we're just going to go through

everything and I'll try and get

everything right so when it comes to

getting this engine in the car it can go

in and not have to come back out again

so we'll start off by removing the

intake and that is the charge pipe that

would normally go to the intercooler and

the take going from the airbox now both

these are quite badly damaged so we'll

start removing those first and that

gives us access to our turbo which is

already in a bad

way I think something either got into

this

turbo or it's not too healthy

anyway cuz

uh a little bit of play I think it's all

right

but yeah sounds like it's catching so I

reckon a bit of dead got in there and

bent one of the

turbines then to get the rest of the

turbo off we just need to remove our

downpipe and then we got to remove our

oil and coant lines which go to the

block and then also our exhaust manifold

once we've undone the five Bool of that

we just need to lever it off and get it

off the

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head

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so I'm glad I took the turbo off and I'm

glad I'm changing the turbo because this

one is unserviceable um it's if you look

at the cat look at that it looks like

it's been peppered with loads of little

bit of debris which may have happened

but it also looks like it's got too hot

and melted so I'm not too sure really um

but if we look at the Turbo from the

face of it I don't know what this white

stuff is either is that coolant burning

I'm not 100% um but on the face of it

looks all right look turbine impeller

both of them are absolutely fine but as

you heard a minute

ago you can hear that noise and that

noise is the turbine shaft catching on

the top of the housing just up here

if you see at the bottom look there's a

bit of a big gap probably like a 1 M Gap

whereas at the top there there is no

Gap and that's that noise you can hear

there is it catching on the top but

there's a little bit of play in it and

if I push it

down then wait it's hard to do but I can

get it so it doesn't make a noise at all

it's hard so yeah it's does need

repairing that wouldn't be able to go

back on the car like that so luckily I

don't really care because we're not

fitting that anyway we're fitting the um

dazer turbo which we'll take a look at

the differences in a

moment um but otherwise yeah there's

definitely been a little fire in here

probably gone down there by the looks of

it I can't see any damage inside there

no debris either valves look okay so I

think we're going to be okay there so

I'm just going to put a load of tape

over this in a minute tape all those

holes up as well cuz there's just a lot

of dirt that needs cleaning off of this

before we can do too much more yeah I

was hoping I could sell that turbo one

for a couple of hundred quid but now I

can't uh not the end of the world I

suppose but um yeah we move on we keep

going and find some more broken bits so

already the bills are racking up new oil

cap 33 quid um new engine mounts and

gearbox Mount I think about 190 quid for

both and these are the or caps brand new

the engine mounts are second hand um new

wishbones I think was about 100 pound uh

what else have we got we've got the

rocker cover just bought a brand new one

of those for 100 quid as well um and

that is pretty much all we need to get

the engine into position stuff like all

these coolant hoses uh wiring Etc we can

start working on once the engine and

gearbox is in the car now I've just been

speaking to someone who has recently

converted that CZ GB engine uh to a

dazer turbo basically doing what I'm

doing here and thank you very much he

sent me a link to what I need to be a to

do it um another 250 quid down the drain

but we need a few adapters so what I

thought this coolant pipe here is

interchangeable so is the this pipe here

the oil return pipe um it's these two

pipes here that need adapters fitting on

them um so they can fit into the engine

so yeah 250 quid later couple of

adapters and also I need a new turbo

actuator because that one is vacuum fed

the old old one whereas the new one is

pressure Fed so I have to buy a new

actuator to do that as well so I think

the actuator is the most expensive part

so yeah Parts ordered yeah and things

like the drive shafts I I'll probably

send them away to be repaired and

reconditioned but they can be done as I

say once the engine is already in the

car so now while we're waiting for the

RS3 engine parts to turn up we're going

to get the white Octavia into the

workshop we're going to start stripping

off the damage basically most of the

front end uh and then we'll take the

engine out as well and then I'll don't

know how far I'll get in this video but

I'll speed up the process fitting the

engine into the red one there's a lot

going

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on so good news uh my LED headlight

still work so that's an absolute result

and I've just found out the hard way

well I think no it's actually a good way

the emergency proactive pedestrian

systems the you know when emergency

braking uh is actually really good and I

didn't realize it works in Reverse too I

was just reversing the car into the

workshop and uh completely daydreaming

about what I was going to film next and

I completely forgot I placed my camera

there to film me reversing into the

workshop and as I was driving backwards

it literally just slammed on the brakes

on me flashed up on the dash and works

really well because it stopped me from

running over my camera so that works and

it works in Reverse so if you didn't

know you

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know so removing the engine on this

we're going to do a little bit

differently because of the front ends

all damaged you're going to have to take

off the front anyway so I'm going to

remove all the um bumper the

lock carrier intercooler radiator and

we're going to pull the engine out

through the front and we're going to

have to do that anyway cuz when we're

putting the RS3 engine in it's not

definitely not going to be as simple so

I'm going to need as much access as

possible to get it in and there's no way

I think I could raise it up through the

bottom so yeah the whole front end of it

is coming off now just looking at the

damage um it should be superficial on

this I don't think we've looked at it

before uh this is a category n car but

if you look at my uh go and click on the

top round Corner when you got 5 minutes

go watch the video I in the polo and the

S1 category cars are a bit hit Miss at

the moment we don't know what's going on

so um it should be superficial I think

oh bit of body damage there that should

be a cat S I think um yes we're going to

remove all this have a look at the

damage but I think Wing headlight

bumper uh few probably bits few little

bits behind the bumper but it does drive

straight um so yeah so let's get let's

start stripping the parts down now

because we're do doing the engine

transport we need to remove as much as

possible anyway so we're going to start

with the front wheels and both of the

wheel Arch liners that just gives us a

little bit more access to remove the

bumper a bit more easily and then once

we got the bumper off yeah it was a bit

of a mess couldn't really get into this

corner it was all bent up and round so I

ended up having to break the bumper just

to get it off but once we did that it

then come off pretty

easily then we got just remove the under

tray and the few screws underneath the

bumper holding on at the bottom and then

the whole thing can just pretty much

fall off I'm thinking cross it should

all just come

off might be a bit harder this

side oh actually I don't think we need

to unbolt the headlight will

we no no we

don't oh no we do tell them by the

wiring

lovely our

job and while I'm here I thought I might

as well remove the wing as we got

removed anyway and also the Bonnet as

that's got to come off

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too right it's the only bit of real

damage is just this tiny little bit here

that's bent I am literally just going to

bend that back it is nothing wrong with

just bending this back here

so that's now all the damage out now the

only little bit of damage it was I just

showed you I've just straightened it

back up look so that's now absolute spot

on again um so yeah the only other bit

of damage is just this slam panel which

we're going to remove anyway to change

the engine so when I put it back

together we'll just get a new Slam panel

to put on but otherwise though there is

no other damage which is good so the um

crash bar the front's intact little bit

of foam missing not too bothered about

that but everything else is all good

wheel Larch good everything else good so

um that is all the damage now removed

apart from the slam panel so what we're

now going to do is I'm just going to

carry on removing this slam panel

removing that headlight and getting the

front end off now luckily on the Octavia

the um washer bottle is on the passenger

side so I haven't got any of that to

worry about um and also the Bonnet cable

as well so luckily that's all over this

side so we're going to car out and

remove the whole front end and then to

get the rest of the slam panel off it's

quite simple headlight out it got a few

bits of wiring to remove from the front

bumper like the horns Etc then we've got

the airbox which is actually connected

to the slam panel remove the whole

airbox we've also got the battery and

the battery tray we have the washer jet

hose that sits up there as well then we

just got some intake pipes intercooler

pipes and we've got coolant going into

the radiator as well we need to drain it

the radiator I normally tend to do this

when it's too late and get coolant all

over the floor however again I've been

proactive and managed to actually drain

most of it into the oil drainer so yeah

once we got the radiator pipes off got

the cooling out as much as possible got

the air Cony to degas the system as well

and then was just a case of removing the

crash bar which holds on the slam panel

and then just pulling the whole thing

forward now I'm just removing the

battery and the battery tray as we need

to get rid of that any anyway cuz it

sits on top of the gearbox but

interestingly because the RS3 engine is

bigger I think we're going to have to

actually relocate the battery to the

boot so that'll be quite interesting

too right we got some good and some bad

news but I'm pretty sure the bad news is

going to far out way they're good um new

genuine oil cap has just turned up so I

can get rid of that and just stick that

on there for now just so it's sealed

well just not getting anything in it

anyway I go that' be right like that so

that's good but yeah quite bad news and

that's because I've just been working

away at the top here just starting to

disconnect stuff and I just started to

go around this side of the engine to

start removing the coolant uh bottle and

stuff and I noticed there was an

additional sort of sensor here and a

bracket and I was like well I don't

recognize that I'm pretty sure that

wasn't on the old engine so I've just

gone over to the old engine and sure

enough there is nothing here at all so

I'm like oh my God surely these are the

same engine they're both octav vrss

one's a 68 plate one's an 18 plate why

would there be any different so I just

looked at the engine code and this one I

don't know if you can see down there you

probably can't but that says dkt in

there somewhere and this one couldn't be

any more different with C HH and usually

engines when they're like the same

platform but they just change a little

bit of Hardware or something like that

they like chh and then the letter on the

end of the engine changes which I think

denotes software and then one letter

down indicates a hardware change uh I

think it goes something like that but we

are not even close to that we are just a

completely different engine code Al

together so um yeah I think I'm going to

have to end end the video there guys and

work out if these two engines are now

going to be compatible um if I can swap

everything over and if I can't I need uh

I've yeah I've got quite a big problem

so um I'm going to end the video there

guys a bit prematurely but I need to now

work out what I'm going to do I hope you

did enjoy this video there was never

going to be a straightforward project

like this it was never going to go to

plan this was always going to be on the

cards something holding us up and yeah

we've we've cter encountered our first

issue um but as I say it's it's good

content cuz it kind of it shows the

reality of doing stuff like this

nothing's ever easy nothing is ever

given there's always going to be

problems on the way so um yeah please do

subscribe if you haven't seen these

videos before guys um and I shall see

you in the next one I'm going to try and

get the uh the vrs project out one like

one episode a week maybe on a Sunday and

then during the week I've got some other

stuff to film as well so while I'm

waiting for parts for the RS3 engine to

turn up as well I'm going to try and get

out like two videos a week I know I keep

saying it it's going to be very

difficult um but I'm going to try and do

something like that so yeah I'll catch

you in the next one guys and uh hope you

had a good weekend cheers

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guys