Callaway on the Operating table.

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Here is a picture of the combustion chamber of a stock 1.8L head:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/jdbubb/84%20Turbo/Engine%20rebuild/DSC03095.jpg

Valves on the 1.8 are 40mm intake and 33mm exhaust. The biggest that I've 
ever heard installed are 42 and 34.
The stock 1.6 head had 34mm intake, 31mm exhaust. It's combustion chamber 
also doesn't taper out towards the intake valve side like the 1.8. The sides 
are generally parallel with a bulge for the spark plug.
It's possible to put the bigger valves in the 1.6 head, but bigger valve 
seats would need to be pressed in which is a pretty big deal.
Your head may simply be a 1.8. Easiest thing to check is if the coolant 
outlet is between cylinders 1 & 2 (1.6L) or 3 & 4 (1.8L).
I've personally never heard of a 26mm oil pump (26mm being the length of the 
gears). A 30mm pump should be good for solid lifter head applications.
Get your camera and go back and take pictures!!! Cylinder head, turbo, 
exhaust manifold.....
OK, well wait till the Slingblade dude isn't there!
Dan

From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 1:50 AM
Subject: Callaway on the Operating table.


>I wish that I had a camera with me today.
>
> The whole lower end is more or less disassembled.  The crank looks like it
> is repairable which is a good thing.  The head and turbo have been 
> removed.
> I saw the bottom of the head and the mechanic tells me that there is
> extensive head work done to this.  I really can't speak intelligently 
> about
> it so I won't try to go into details.  He said it had larger valves than 
> he
> expected and something about the head and the way it was dished in the 
> valve
> area.  I heard "blah blah blah... expensive".  One of the valves on each
> cylinder was considerably larger than the other.  I don't know if that's
> normal or not...  Oh yea and it has some sort of upgraded cam in it.  The
> turbo is so foooked it isn't funny.  He had to fiddle with it to even get 
> it
> to spin and there is alot of play on the shaft.  I wiggled the hell out of
> it.
>
> I told him on Comrade Bubb's advice not to go with the superwhammiedyne 
> oil
> pump.  He said 26mil was stock for a 1.6, but maybe I would benefit from a
> 30mil?  I told him I would consult the Jedi Council and get back with him.
> He looked at me like I lit up a crack pipe.
>
> It was pretty funny though when I first pulled up there was this sloppy
> looking dude that came right over to my car and was like OH WOW it's an
> R24!!!  Then he goes Oh my bad it's a Golf.  I told him he was sort of 
> right
> on both counts, but thanks for noticing.  I was kind of in a hurry to pay
> for some of the labor and get to see Spiderman.  He goes over and slaps 
> the
> hood of this poor car that looked like it had rally'ed in Bagdad.  And
> dude's still talking.  I am walking away at this point and dudes talking 
> to
> my back.  "In case you are wondering..." I am trying to be polite but I am
> in an awful hurry "this is a Quantum Wagon Synchro... It's the predecessor
> to the 4-motion Passat.  There aren't that many in the States."  I go over
> and take look again to be polite and there's shit growing ON the car.  The
> back of the wagon had shit all over.  I have seen cars in the junkyard 
> that
> looked less jacked up.  He needed Mtv to pimp that ride or something.
>
> So I am like um...  Nice car.  (Ok I was polite, gotta go I am thinking) 
> I
> tell him it was nice talking to him good luck with the
> exorcism/restoration... and I turn around again.  I get in the door and 
> look
> back and dudes STILL talking.  I am INSIDE.  He's looking at me there's 
> eye
> contact through the glass and he's still talking.  WTF?  So I pay the
> mechanic go back and look at my poor car in pieces and come out like 10
> minutes later and he's still in the parking lot.  Dude was straight up
> slingblade.  I really had to go but he wanted to know if I knew that 
> Synchro
> meant four wheel drive...  It was painful.
>
>
>
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