Volkswagen Group engines are not widely known by "engine families" in the same way some other manufacturers do.[citation needed]VW Group engines are commonly known by the type of fuel they use, their displacement, and their rated motive power output.[citation needed] VW Group does have names of engine series, and individual engines are identified by an "ID code" (early codes were one or two letters/numbers, later IDs were generally three letters, and their very latest engines now use four letters) - but they have been known to apply many different ID codes to seemingly identical engines.[citation needed]
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1.6-litre TD, 44 kW (60 PS; 59 hp) — 1991–1992 Volkswagen Jetta ECODiesel (TurboDiesel with standard non-Turbo injector pump. Catalytic converter has nothing to do with it being an "EcoDiesel" )
Known classically as the "counterflow 8 valve", the EA827 engine series is the root of most of Volkswagen's engines in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It started as an Audi-designed engine and spawned straight-five-cylinder, diesel, crossflow, turbo, supercharged, and 16 valve variants. While mostly retired, the "second cousin" of the EA827 is still alive, known as the TDI.
The 16 valve Volkswagen engine is the same as the EA827 series, the only difference being the addition of piston cooling oil squirters, similar to the g60 block but with a 16 valve cylinder head attached.
Volkswagen's ubiquitous 1.8 T engine, wholly developed by Audi, also known as the 1.8 20vT, has seen many improvements over the years and is used in many Volkswagen vehicles. It is sometimes mounted longitudinally while at other times mounted transversely. Its cylinder head contains five valves per cylinder–a total of 20 valves, and all versions use a turbocharger.
1.8-litre T, 165 kW (224 PS; 221 hp) — 1999–2005 Audi TT Quattro (transversely mounted)
Fuel Stratified Injectionedit
The latest development of this engine range. An all new cylinder head was needed for the Audi-developed Fuel Stratified Injection (FSI), which features cylinder-direct fuel injection straight into the combustion chambers. The result of needing to site both spark plug and fuel injector meant that the former five-valve layout had to be changed to a four-valve-per-cylinder arrangement. Like previous engines, where the T appears, it stands for forced induction, usually by a turbocharger.
Older Volkswagen inline-five-cylinder engines are an adaptation of the original Audi five-cylinder engine (for use in the Audi 4000-derived Quantum). Eurovan five-cylinders are a 2.5-litre non-crossflow 10-valve engine with an extra cylinder and balance rods added. Volkswagen most recently came out with a new five-cylinder developed (loosely) from half of a Lamborghini GallardoV10 engine.[citation needed]
Volkswagen's potent VR6 engine was originally conceived as a diesel engine,[citation needed] but later found itself as a gasoline engine. This engine was designed and created so that a six cylinder engine could fit within an engine bay of car originally designed for an inline-four engine.
Volkswagen has only built a single W8 engine, for the 2001–2004 Passat. It was a test bed for the W engine technology, which made it into the W12 (listed below), and the W16, as used in the 406 km/h (252 mph) BugattiVeyron EB16.4.
Volkswagen has only used one fundamental design for its V8 engine - an all-aluminium alloy construction, but with evolutions in engine management and fueling systems. Like its other engines, increases in power necessitated new engine ID codes. Only the Phaeton and Touareg in the Volkswagen Passenger Cars marque have used a V8 engine.
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diesel engines
"Pumpe Düse Einspritzung (PDE - UIS)". kfztech.de (in German). Retrieved 4 November 2009.
1.9 litre TDI engine with Pump Düse(PDF), Auburn Hills, MI, USA: Volkswagen of America, Inc, October 2003, Self-Study Program - Course Number 841303, retrieved 4 November 2009
"Auto Tech: Pumpe Duse". CanadianDriver.com. CanadianDriver Communications Inc. 29 September 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Low-pressure pump". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Radial-piston distributor pump". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Axial-piston distributor pump". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Fuel-injection nozzles". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Unit Injector System (UIS)". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Archived from the original on 29 October 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Common Rail System CRS". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Electronic Diesel Control (EDC)". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
"Passenger-car systems - Systems for exhaust-gas treatment". Bosch.de. Robert Bosch GmbH - Automotive Technology - Diesel systems. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
External linksedit
VolkswagenAG.com - Volkswagen Group corporate website
Chemnitz (Germany) - engine plant Mobility and Sustainability
Kassel (Germany) - engine plant Mobility and Sustainability
Salzgitter (Germany) - engine plant Mobility and Sustainability
Polkowice (Poland) - engine plant Mobility and Sustainability
São Carlos (Brazil) - engine plant Mobility and Sustainability
Shanghai (China) - engine plant Mobility and Sustainability
Audi at a glance - includes information on the Győr engine plant