[Vwdiesel] Engine Lineage

[Val Christian]

> 
> Apparently not a converted gas engine, but rather a co-design because
> the european market was diesel oriented, based upon the two mechanics
> who I talked with.  (Car and Driver, Road and Track might disagree.)
> 
> 
>   Dunno.  I thought I'd read something about the converted gas engines 
> of the 70's/80's and the VW was mentioned.  It does seem they'd put 
> 5 more head bolts on it if it was an original diesel design.  If they had 
> we'd see less head gasket problems.  Can't back up  what I'm saying 
> though so maybe I'm wrong.

	I've read it allot.  I don't know where the truth is.  From what
	I can tell, these guys were the contrarians.  At the time, though,
	they knew more about VW diesels than anyone else.  

	It's interesting that some Chinese Diesel manufacturers tout
	that their lower bearings are "made by VW", apparently 
	trying to piggyback on the reputation of the VWs.  Gee, I
	should go look at the spare parts kits for the last round of
	Chinese diesel generators, and see if I can see any VW 
	markings on the bearings.  Hold your breath on this one...

	I can say that the industrial 1.488 diesel sure looks like the
	1.5 NA.  Oh, another difference.  The Bosch injector pumps 
	were configured so that the "throttle position" was really 
	an RPM setting.  I'm sure it was a different injector pump,
	although it looked the same.

>   The thing that makes it difficult to argue is that VW tends to overengineer 
> 
> the engines from the beginning.  Most of their gasser internals are about 
> as heavy duty built as most comperable diesels!  After working on Subarus 
> for a long time, I got into a VW air cooled.  Sub is basically a water cooled 
> 
> copy.  BOY was I impressed by the size of those journals!!!  The VW rod 
> journals were bigger than the Subaru mains!  That was when I was first 
> sold on VW.
>      Loren
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