what motor says 5v/ or v5 on it

Ti Kan ti at amb.org
Mon Jul 23 02:02:31 EDT 2001


Alan Pritchard writes:
> looking around a scrapyard and found a newish a4, the motor was marked up
> v5, it appeared to be a four pot, so i guessed it was a 20v 4 pot, would
> this assumption be right? its not the vw vr5 motor is it? what capacity is
> it, 2l?  also the mounts appeared to be the same as those in my cgt, also
> the gearbox looked right, would a late engine go into a 17 year old car???
> and if so, who wants to send me a rs4 motor to experiment with???? lol

The "5V" designation means "5-valves per cylinder".  If it's a four cylinder,
then it's 1.8 liters displacement, turbocharged.  If it's a V6, then it's
2.8 liters, normally aspirated.

-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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