IIRC, except for the 1.5 Bunny motor, the engine size is cast into the
block.  You might poke around Tom Carrington's engine swap page.
<http://volksweb.relitech.com/>  There's a ton of good info there.

Jim

Jessup Coffin wrote:
> Hey there all, trying to define what engine is in the back of my vanagon.
> I've been told that is everything from a 75 rabbit engine, to an 80 dasher,
> or 89 golf. I have no clue, and neither does the person I got it from. I
> found the engine code: ox 552-709, tried running that through the local auto
> parts store, dealership and even VW central. None of them could help me
> though, they didn't have it catalogued by the engine code, only the vins,
> which doesn't help since the engine is before they bothered putting hte vins
> on it.
>
> All I can think to describe is that it's an inline four, with CIS fuel
> injection, water cooled and resembels a rabbit type engine.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Jessup
>
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