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 starkz
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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 08:27 AM |
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Engine size
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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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 08:37 AM |
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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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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:14 AM |
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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.
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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:45 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Sides
It's pretty rare to see a single port that's bigger than 1500
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Make that 1600 
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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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 11:46 AM |
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dont some scruitineers measure cylinder volume somehow without stripping an engine?
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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 04:11 PM |
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How would they be able to? 
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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 04:13 PM |
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better off removing n stripping
is it single or double inlet port heads
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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 06:19 PM |
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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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| posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 06:26 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by sander288
How would they be able to?
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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.
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| posted on February 4th, 2011 at 11:47 AM |
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"sometimes" would be correct for historics... 
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