The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is an air-cooled, gasoline-fuelled, boxer engine with four horizontally opposed cast-iron cylinders, cast aluminum alloy cylinder heads and pistons, magnesium-alloy crankcase, and forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods.

Jun 25, 2014 · CU (and CV) engines are Vanagon Engines (1980-1982) with the hydraulic lifters and the new 071 heads that match the later type heat exchangers. GE engines also have hydraulic lifters and came with the new 071 heads in the last production year; 1979.

Feb 25, 2013 · A 1980 T3 Westaflia with a partly rebuild type 4 2.0L aircooled CU engine (with new hydraulic lifters). The short block was completely rebuild with quality (German) parts 5000 km ago by the former owner but nothing was done to the heads and carbs.

May 31, 2009 · Brand new distributors for the 2.0 litre CU engine are no longer available. A pic of your engine bay will also help. I'll see if I can find a pic of what a CU engine bay should look like. Here's a pic of a typical (correctly installed) CU engine bay.

Despite drinking even more fuel, the 2.0-litre 70bhp CU engine (above) was the better of the two air-cooled offerings. It was based on the Type 4 engine and first saw VW bus duties in the later Bay Window.

Mar 10, 2009 · I have bought a type 4 to go into me bay and looked to day - it is a CJ engine. what is the difference between CU and CJ? any problems i should know...

Feb 2, 2016 · Despite being even more thirsty the 2.0-litre 70bhp CU engine (above) was the better of the two air-cooled offerings. It was based on the Type 4 unit and first saw VW bus duties in the later Bay Window.

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The early Type 25 was still fitted with an Aircooled engine. This was available as a 1.6 (CT Engine Code) or 2.0 (CU or CV engine code). In 1983 the first Watercooled petrol engine was available. This was available initially as a 1.9 and then shortly after the 2.1 was introduced.

The 2 litre T25 engines fitted to Campervans and Caravelles had the engine codes CU, which was a carburettor version with hydraulic lifters but there was also a CV Type 25 engine which was the fuel injected version.