VW!

look at this peice of shit, its lucky its even graced the kitchen floor! Best place for it is outside cos its a right shit to work on

Might not look too bad to you:



But i can tell you its a right bastard, who in their right mind makes an engine take the air in and spit the exhaust out on the same fecking side of the head! why can't they be conventional?! In one side, out the other, nice and simple....but noooooooooooo they want to tease me!

Oh, and to top it off, VW parts departments are absolute shite! They get you the wrong nuts, and not only are they wrong, but there's not enough there anyway!

I even had to rape my poor vauxhall lump for a few manifold studs!

Rant over

 

[quote]who in their right mind makes an engine take the air in and spit the exhaust out on the same fecking side of the head! [quote]

VW do

 

[quote="AJ"][quote]who in their right mind makes an engine take the air in and spit the exhaust out on the same fecking side of the head! No, i mean the man respocible for designing the peice of turd! I'll have his guts for a cambelt if i ever meet him...Oh and don't get me started on cambelts and timing

 

mate loads o engines are designed this way

not just VW

minis for one

 

your lucky it's not a VR6...

 

ford diesel engines as found in sierras, fiestas, exsorts and mondeos aswell are like this

 

Well its GAY

and that's that!

 

Why use VW parts department when you can use GSF or Euro Car Parts, they are normally cheaper.

As for the design of the head i had a moan about it aswell,lol

 

Just be thankful you've never had to work on any Fiats...!
My wife has a 2001 1.2 Punto bought from new and it is a bag of shite..!!
I had to do the headgasket on it a few weeks ago AND skim the head to get rid of pitting - it's only done 36,000 miles FFS

Bastard car..!

 

VW still win for the beetle engine

Shonky air cooled piece of shit. If I never see another heat exchanger again I'll be a happy man

 

Err, whats the big deal about the inlet and exhaust being on the same side?

Used on loads of Ford engines, Renault 5 Turbo (not Gordini or Turbo2's tho, they used a conventional head on the same block) engines, and tons more actually.

 

Err, its not , its called a pre X-flow if its on the same side , 1500 gt cortinas etc.. its a crossflow when it does precisely that !

 

SORRY

I was eating my dinner and wasnt thinking

 

and so do some vaux engines aswell

 

name one after 1986 that is then,

 

17 diesel

 

Which engine is that the 2e jobbie out of a Mk3? if it is - bollox - i need to do the head gasket on one! looks like a right bitch to get out for a start!

 

Whoever designed the oil filter location on the SR20DE engined Primera needs all the skin filing off their knuckles.........unless they've had to do an oil change in which case the car will do it for them.

Apart from that it seems a good engine.

 

Nah its off a Mk2 GTi 8 v 18PB

 

The Pug 1.6 & 1.9's are a bastid as well

 

Lol and how many did they make b4 then?

er well there was the .......
Chevette ish
1.6 2.0 Cavalier
2.0 Manta
2.0 2.2 Carlton
3.0 Monza / Senator
in other words just their whole fooking line up lol

 

Yeah, none of those were in production after 1986 lol Only one going was the cavalier, and by that time it was already into MK3 and the better engines

 

2.0 Manta was still about after 86

Come on man , what about that other well know Vauxhall barge...... 2.4 Frontera

I thankyou

 

nova 1.0l ohv... made up to at least 93

 

Lol so you reckon there was a 1 litre OHV engine in Mk2 novas? (1990-1993 end of production)

Pics?

 

I know there was, i have a J plate one although the engine has been taken out to fit a somewhat larger one

I don't have any pics of the car but the log book shows it...

 

thing is they seem to go on forever

 

I'm pretty sure the 1 litre on J plates was OHC not OHV

 

I know this was an OHV as i took the engine out of it...

 

Hmmmm

 

What more can i say.... it was in the car and i took it out....

I do know the diff between an OHV and an OHC...