probably 1955 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/bugchassisdating.php
AS41 means the crankcase is made out of magnesium. They all are. You need to get the engine serial number from under the generator or alternator (on the base of the stand) to determine the year and original size.
The length of the connecting rod in a Volkswagen AER 1.0 L engine is 5.670 inches long. It is made of forged 4340 steel.
No. Volkswagen made two prototypes only in 1951 with a 1.3 L diesel engine. One in a type 1 and the other in a type 2.
Open the trunk lid--AKA the "front hood." There's a data plate in there that has the country of manufacture on it. You can't really go by engine number because so many Bugs are driving around with engines that came from the factory in other Bugs.
Porsche does not own Volkswagen. Ferdinand Porsche made the first Volkswagen. Today Porsche is owned by Volkswagen.
No. Porsche and Volkswagen have shared some engineering, as was most recognized by the Porsche 914. The Porsche 914 was started by Porsche, but with certain controls under Volkswagen - the car was produced using the Volkswagen 4 cylinder engine. Today, Porsche has controlling interest in Volkswagen, at slightly more than 50%, gained in 2011. So, it can be said that Porsche owns Volkswagen today, and that future Volkswagens are made under the control of Porsche.
I believe it's a 1974 The 74 engines started with AK0239365 and in 1975 they started with AJxxxxxxx. According to "How to keep you Volkswagon Alive" mine which is AK blocks were made in 73 yours looks like early in that year.
should be 10W30. had problems when 5w30 was in mine so i made the switch and problem solved.
The Chevy engine with that casting number was made in 1993.
A W16 engine is a sixteen cylinder piston internal combustion engine in a four-bank W configuration. Volkswagen Group's design is a stretched form of its W12 engine, which is itself based on technology from its VR6 engine. The VR6 engine is a narrow-angle V6 engine, which could also be described as a staggered-inline six-cylinder piston engine. Joining two such designs together into a W engine creates a design that is much shorter than an inline engine with the same number of cylinders, but not too much wider. Volkswagen Group's W12 engines utilise two VR6-like sets of cylinders mated at 72 degrees, and the W8 engine consisted of two VR4 engines at the 72-degree angle. The Volkswagen Group W16 engine as configured for the Bugatti Veyron EB16.4 is a 16 cylinder quad-turbocharged engine with four valves per cylinder.
There are two major numbers on a Volkswagen engine. The first is the engine serial, which is stamped on the boss for the generator stand. It will read something like "AE 4225147." (The most important part of that is the letter or letters at the beginning of the serial number. There's a breakout of these letter groups in John Muir's "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive"--and he also lists the timing for each engine series.) The other, which you found, is the part number. 043 101 101a is a dual-port 1600cc engine--which dates from 1970 until end of production. Also, year of production really doesn't matter on a Type 1 engine since once VW designed an engine, they didn't change the way it was made. ?
The Chevy engine with that casting number was made in 1993.