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Subject:Re: Exhaust system
From:David Kao
Date:Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:35:39 -0700

--- "Georgios A. Stylianides, PhD" <gstylia@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Exhaust system job in progress!
>
> While I took apart the exhaust system (that baby was
> rough! � to say the least), I noticed the following:
>
> 1. The cylinder heads had a number imprinted inside
> the exhaust outlets (see:
> http://www.esu.edu/~gstylia/vw/Cyl3b.htm ). It looked
> like the cylinders were numbered. The only difference
> is that cylinder 1 was indeed 1, cylinder 3 was indeed
> 3, but cylinder 2 was also 1 and cylinder 4 was also
> 3. What�s up with that?

Don't worry about the numbers. The cylinder head on the right and
on the left are identical. #1 on the right when swapped to the left
side it becomes #4. #2 on the right when swapped to the left becomes
#3.

David

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