Hi guys, just wondering if there is a quick and simPle way to determine engine size eg 1600, 1776 or 1916cc so on, of a complete type 1 engine.
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Engine size
barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem
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not really with out measuring the internals. you can use the engine number to see what it started off as but thats it.
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Sides Veteran Volks Folk
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Yeah - what barls said.
It's pretty rare to see a single port that's bigger than 1500, but no technical reason it couldn't have been done.
Twin port usually means 1600 or larger - there was a factory 1300 twin port, but pretty common to rebuild them as 1600's.
Measuring is the only way to be sure.
It's pretty rare to see a single port that's bigger than 1500, but no technical reason it couldn't have been done.
Twin port usually means 1600 or larger - there was a factory 1300 twin port, but pretty common to rebuild them as 1600's.
Measuring is the only way to be sure.
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Make that 1600 😉Sides wrote:It's pretty rare to see a single port that's bigger than 1500
Most single port 1300 and 1500 engines these days has been rebuilt as a 1600.
A 1600 single port with the cruddy internal oil cooler swapped for a doghouse is a top little engine and will last for eons, get good mileage and has reasonable power..... well for a vw anyway.
Twinport engines tend to flog them selves to death alot sooner than singles.
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dont some scruitineers measure cylinder volume somehow without stripping an engine?
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How would they be able to? ❓
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better off removing n stripping
is it single or double inlet port heads
is it single or double inlet port heads
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If you were really keen you could probably do it by pumping the cylinder full of fluid somehow and then reciprocating it. The most reliable way is to whip the heads off and measure.
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There is an instrument [sometime used in historic racing] that measures cylinder capacity by turning engine over with the device connected to the cylinder by removing a spark plug.sander288 wrote:How would they be able to? ❓
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"sometimes" would be correct for historics... 😁