Anybody got any photos of a 2007 VW Golf FSI Petrol Engine (around 1.6~1.8L) they could post?

Got a stripped down one at work we were going through today and couldn't see what something at the damper pulley end of the engine was connected to. It's the Chain cover end of the engine I was interested in.

Sorry, this is me being an engine geek

 

Any use Ben?

 

a golf r32 went off the lights in the opposite direction to me the other day. it sounded cracking.

not really ot i realise

 

Unfortunately not. I'm after more towards that end but exhaust side rather than intake. Also the version I'm after is a chain drive for the valve train. Think that's an older design but not certain. I'd had a look around and found that previously

Thanks anyway

 

What, you mean they've finally changed the design of EA827?

It's been almost the same since 1972.

 

Dunno about the engine designation. The one I was looking at at works a chain drive valve train. Quite an interesting engine architecture and the manufacturing methods are pretty different to ours (and look extremely wasteful in some ways!)

 

Competitor analysis going on!

 

Of course.

 

Yeah, everyone does it. Some companies even have standing agreements to supply one another with production vehicles. I remember my brother telling me when he saw a place in Jaguar they hadn't been able to get hold of a car off a competitor and they'd rented one off Avis and stripped it (they they rebuilt it and returned it!)
When I was at Uni I went for a tour of Rover and went through their tear down facility.

We've currently got a VW engine stripped to see if it gives us any ideas for cost savings. There's an odd connection at the front end of the engine I was trying to work out what it's for. Looks like something to do with the PCV system but looks way over engineered/expensive