[V8] stupid question - cutting a V8 in half

[Buchholz, Steven]

... one of the heads may match ... but I suspect the other would be a mirror
image so you wouldn't expect to be able to interchange with the VW app.  I
was about to post on this myself ... the one thing I do know is that Jeff
(Audidudi) dug in enough to know that the exhaust manifold is compatible ...
here again, on one side.  Apparently there may be some aftermarket turbo
available for the VW and that might be a starting point for turbocharging
the V8 ...

Steve B
San Jose, Kaleefohnia (USA)
> 
> Good Question,
>    I am no expert on this but ...   A freind of mine, a real 
> volkswagen
> nut, fell in love with my v8 - a while back I had the heads 
> off to do some
> re-gasketing and so-forth, he got to looking at the heads and 
> said to me,
> wow, those look exactly like the heads off of a 1.8 vw 16v.  
> He just so
> happed to have one and we could not tell a difference in them 
> - I'm almost
> sure that the cams are different but maby only on one side 
> or, maby you
> have to reverse one side to get the shaft to stick out the 
> correct end - I
> don't know.  Anyway, the casting seemed to be the same and I can't
> remember but may have had the same part number - I know that 
> the heads on
> the audi are the same from left to right, they have the same 
> part numbers
> but just have different parts bolted on to them.
> 
>                       Maby this helps or confuses,
>                                               Jason