Requiring Engine Code

[Guest Drewpal]

Can someone please tell me where to look for what is known as the Engine code for the above vehicle. I have to quote this to a mechanic who wants to check out a replacement engine for me.

 

Many thanxs

[Guest vr6galaxy]

The engine number is located on the end of the block, level with the aux belt tensioner pully ;) It's either starts AAA or AMY ? :(

I take it then that the timeing chains have gone? :D has your guy lifted the head yet to see if it can be rebuilt? or he is sure it's a totalled engine ;) several company do replacement parts, short blocks, recon heads etc, also try a couple of the VW forums E38, Westside, ebay etc VR6's pop up these site every so often :D like now ! :D

[Guest marcusheawood]

It is important to note that this a VW engine NOT a Ford engine, I would have thought your mechanic would know this!

 

AFAIK all 2.8 8 valve VR6 engines are mechanically identical 174 PS units. The engine from a Golf or Passat would fit with the correct exchange of auxillary parts/mounts from your dead engine. I think you could even use a 2.9 unit from a Corrado Storm 190 PS.

[Guest vr6galaxy]

I think you could even use a 2.9 unit from a Corrado Storm 190 PS.

Yes :( if you get the correct year as some models were dizzy ignition (ABV) not coil pack as the Galaxy is, although getting hold of a 2.9 throttle body wouldnt do you any harm ;)

not sure how good they are? but this this lots last cataloguequotes

[seatkid]

Why bother with a hungry, costly,unreliable VR6? The sensible thing is to fit a diesel unit........ :(

[Guest vr6galaxy]

Why bother with a hungry, costly,unreliable VR6? The sensible thing is to fit a diesel unit........ :(

why bother? cos the purr of it on full throttle is better than that of a stinking, noisey, smokeing TDI http://www.seatcupra.net/images/smilies/flamed.gif

[Guest Drewpal]

Thanks guys for all your purrring actions!! Well heard and taken. Is there another way of getting this code apart from looking on the engine or engine bloac? :(

[Guest marcusheawood]

how old is your car?

[Guest Drewpal]

Registered 1997 on a 'R' Plate.

[Guest vr6galaxy]

It's a AAA engine, the VR6 engine is used in the

MERCEDES V 280 104.900 CC 2792 98->

VOLKSWAGEN CORRADO ABV CC 2862 91-95

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF VR6 ABV CC 2862 94-96

VOLKSWAGEN JETTA AAA CC 2793 94->

VOLKSWAGEN JETTA VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN JETTA VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2.9 ABV CC 2862 94-96

VOLKSWAGEN SHARAN VR6 AAA CC 2793 9/95-3/98

VOLKSWAGEN SHARAN VR6 AMY CC 2793 95->

VOLKSWAGEN VENTO VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN VENTO VR6 AAA CC 2793 92-97

VOLKSWAGEN (LCV) TRANSPORTER T4 VR6 AES CC 2793 97

[El Dingo]

I've owned...

ABC

ACE

AAN

7A

...amongst others...

 

 

:ph34r:

 

Nothing wrong with the lovely quiet Ford 2.3 either!

:ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

[Guest vr6galaxy]

 

Nothing wrong with the lovely quiet Ford 2.3 either!

:ph34r:  :ph34r:  :ph34r:

Not much apart from it's 497cc and two cylinders missing :P Oh and and not forgetting the odd 29 bhp :P or 59bhp depending on wether the VR6 is 12 or 24V :ph34r:

[seatkid]

.... here he goes again..... :ph34r:

[Guest vr6galaxy]

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[El Dingo]

29 BHP? Pah! :ph34r:

 

(I fart in your general direction. I wave my private parts at your auntie) :ph34r:

[Sharanfx]

Thanks guys for all your purrring actions!! Well heard and taken. Is there another way of getting this code apart from looking on the engine or engine bloac? :ph34r:

Have a look on your log book.

 

The 1st 3 letters of the engine number on the log book will give you the engine code.

 

Should be AAA on a r reg.

[Guest marcusheawood]

...I really don't know why your mechanic is making such a load of arse dribbling fuss!

 

It's a 174 PS 2.8 VR6 Engine.....any one will do ferchrissakes!! :ph34r:

[Guest vr6galaxy]

 

It's a 174 PS 2.8 VR6 Engine.....any one will do ferchrissakes!! :ph34r:

NO IT WONT :ph34r: as I said earlier there are some VR6's that run dizzy's these are OBD1 engines and run an ISV and a different throttle body to the later coil packed ODB2 AAA VR's stuck in the Galaxy :ph34r:

[seatkid]

All the more reason to change to diesel.... :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

[gregers1]

now now let im be with his BOMB :ph34r:

[Guest vr6galaxy]

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[Guest marcusheawood]

Yes, yes VR, but he won't using all the ancilliary gubbins will he.

Everything will be changed over from the dead engine.

They are mechanically the same.

[mumof4]

Lol.....i come on this site every day when the 4 money munchers go to bed and the otherhalf is snoring on the couch..why????...Because you all make me laugh with your bantering(and of course the good advice thank you everyone.) :blink:

 

Good morning all.xx

[Guest vr6galaxy]

Only to glad to entertain you http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/images/smilies/clown.gif

 

any how back to the question in hand yes Marcus they are the same engine untill you try and fit the coil pack and cant due to the dizzy being there :blink: and a couple of hoses and plugs that you dont have or the couple of plugs on the end of the loom that are floating around in space :)

yes you can swap the top end over, but as we can gather that the failure of the timeing chains have caused the need for a new engine we can only sumise that the head is toast ;) it would be interesting to see if it is? and if it can be rebuilt?

has the head come off yet Drewpal? or has the mechanic just said it's easier and cheaper to replace the whole engine?