Hi all, I have a type 4 engine which I am struggling to identify. I have been told it is not the original 1700cc as the PO changed it and that it may be the one of the VW engines that were fitted in a Porsche 914. This apparently as the dipstick is on top of the engine, the rocker covers have breather tubes fitted and the bell housing has a hole blanked off where some kind of fuel injection sensor would have been. To get to the bottom of this I have tried to look up the engine codes. The 1st photo shows the fanshroud which I reckon was changed from the original which would make sense, this matches the V5 document. There is another number in the second photo near the dipstick but I cannot find anything to decipher this. I'm not too bothered about what type it is but would really like to know to satisfy my curiosity. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
You have the front of a 914 fan case, but the CA designation is from a bus. The numbers on the actual crankcase are not hard stamped obviously, but if you can see the small symbol which looks like a VW with an @ around it signifies that it has been remanufactured by VW. If you have the dipstick in the top of the engine case then it's possible that it's a 914 engine still, the only way you'll know for certain is by popping one of the heads off and looking at the pistons. 914 are flat or domed for higher compression, dished for a bus. If its a 914 then as stock it should put out 80bhp instead of 68bhp for the bus engine. What you should have on the case is a hard stamped number on the bottom of the breather tower. Even if remanufactured there should still be a hard stamped number, although some of the engine builders use stick on plates for engine numbers. It may have been stripped and reworked many times, I've got engines with case halves that don't match, heads which don't match etc etc
