Does anyone know what type, and where and engine with the Number "CE 00 33 77", is and from. Have tried searching www. but no luck sofar. Does anyone know a good sight for search, as this engine dosent belong in my Kombi, so I can't do a VIN search on it.:alien

An interesting one that!

A CE engine is a 1700cc Type 4 motor, but the listing I usually use doesn't say whether its from a Kombi or a Type 4 sedan. However as VW 411s weren't sold in Australia, I suspect it's from one of the earliest Type 4 Kombis, from about 1973.

The engine number list I normally use is:

http://www.bug-bits.freeserve.co.uk/bugbits/data.htm 

its absolutely a type 4 engine. What size it is now is a mystery though until you pull it apart as parts from 1700, 1800, 2000 are interchangable. What year model is your kombi? How do you figure its doesnt belong?

See it not always what you know but who you know.

This forum is awesome :bounce

If my chassis number is 593955 ?????

What year does that make it?:o

daz, if it's a kombi i make it a 60 model.

Actually its the chassis number of my Buggy, I think it had a "0" on the end at one stage.

I need help to identify what engine is in my herbie, the engine number starts with an S , What does that mean, it has single port heads and sounds quite hearty but not ground pounding.

Merlyn, have you actually seen that number stamped on the engine? It looks like a gearbox number.
All the 1700 engines I've seen are CA numbered

S 8350200
is the number,
I have found no listing for an S prefix
Maybe its the S for an extra turn of speed
{jim douglas's words}
Maybe the S stands for something else all together....... be polite:sandrine

Richard, that avatar is huge mate. I don't suppose you could possibly make a smaller one?

Richard is herbie downunder
I am Tony, HERBIE
different guys different state similar interests
my avartar is only 49 kbs
but is physicaly a bit big yes, I will change it if I can.
Tony

I just went to double check, its definately the way I posted it, doesnt even look ambiguous
However i wiped a bit more of the case on the side and stamped side ways like an after thought are the numbers
C 2933D and E404G
which doesnt make it any clearer at all
Its a mystery:o
Cheers Tony
Ps it has a CONTI motors sticker on the tappet covers its a really old looking sticker barely ledgible I think they are a bribie island vw shop

Maybe it's GE? Sometimes the numbers are hard to read

http://www.wackyracers.co.uk/tech-refpages/chassis-t2.html

Just a thought cos I don't come up with a CE in searches

Just found this. It breaks down the VIN number codes, may help to understand it's history

http://www.driversfound.com/gak/vininfo.htm

[Edited on 29-4-2003 by jenz58]

On a recent bad little buggers run my motor was identified as a 1200 because of the fan shroud and a few other bits so I think that it probably is a 1200 seeing as thats what it should be in a 62 I think no idea what the numbers are all about.
Thanks

Hi Herbie

It could be a police number, when I fitted the WBX motor to my bug it was brand new so it had no number, I had to take it to a police station, show them my ID and receipts and they issued me a special police number.

1302Steve

Thats a thought.
I remember such things had to happen for Bathurst GTRXU1s and the like.
They apparently had no numbers as they were made to be race cars, however the survivors of bathurst got caught in limbo, no longer competitive race cars and not quite road cars, and they had to be independently approved by the police.
Although I doubt My engine started life as a race motor but maybe it started life as a pump motor or one of the other contraptions I have seen, who knows? but I hadn't thought about that Steve, its quite a distinct possibility.
Cheers Tony