wow look at this intake manifold

[Master ACiD]

would work super for a custom turbo manifold if you cut it a bit shorter and put a 90 degree elbow on it.



http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VW-Intake-Manifold-for-1-6-Marine-auto-diesel-engine_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ31285QQitemZ4601633701QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

[vwmike]

That's kinda cool. I doubt it would be all that useful...but cool nonetheless. If you zoom in it has a part number on it - 056 129 213 2. The 2 on the end confuses me though. Normally I'd expect to see a letter. It does have the VW/Audi logos as well. BTW, that part number goes nowhere in US or European Etka. It also says Brazil and 2BR 1 on it...2BR 1 means nothing to me but the Brazillian production makes me think maybe it was used on some weird Brazillian car. They have all kinds of strange VW's down there.

[Master ACiD]

its from a marine app. probably a sailboat.

[vwmike]

Why would it have a VW logo on it then? If the engine was used in a sailboat you'd think they would have had to cast that themselves since VW doesn't build sailboats.

[935racer]

VW made tons of weird application marine diesel motors, all sorts of weird cranks and rods and manifolds and stuff. pretyt much all based on the 1.6solid lifter NA motors. When I was living in san diego there were a lot of small vw shops that would keep 5 rebuilt vw motors in stock for the tuna rigs taht would come into port, when they came in they would swap the motors and rebuild the cores, this happened for years until now the engines aren;t really used anymore. All the mexicans have since picked up the diesel motors to race in the vw diesel specific race class they have down there. And now its impossible to find a vw diesel engine in so cal.

[vwmike]

That's very strange. I guess VW was more willing to customize things for customers than I would have figured.

[935racer]

It doesn't if you have a big tuna fleet say 100 ships, each ship needs 20 vw diesel motors.... you get the idea. I am planning on spending sometime in mexico this summer scrounging up some rare vw marine parts, you could actually get 1.6 rods that fit 1.9 pistons. there was all sorts of weird cool stuff. Unfortunately I couldn;t find much while I was in so cal but i know the mexicans race the diesels and are huge into tuning the IDI engines as they have their own race circuit.

[LeeG]

In pacific northwest, these marine VW diesels were sold under the name 'pathfinder'.

VW engines have long been used for comercial applicaitons.  Back in the '70s there used to be lots of air cooled flat 4s sold for things like portable sawmills.