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Aircooled VW South Africa • CJ vs CU heads
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CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:15 pm
by Eugene
Hey guys, who can show me with pictures aka photos, what the visual differences are between the heads of the two types? The CU, I know has hydraulic lifters but how can you tell when you compare the two?

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:37 pm
by Blitzkrieg
CU heads have square exhaust ports

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:40 pm
by retrovan
The CU has oval ports and the CJ has round ports

Hydraulic lifter you will find in both, and can be fitted to both.

Most guys fit Hydraulic valve lifters to any type 4 as you need not keep setting the valves.

They may be noisy when standing for a wail but lub up after a few kilo's and run silent.

hope it helps

Herman

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 6:38 pm
by Eugene
retrovan wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 4:40 pm The CU has oval ports and the CJ has round ports....
This is sort of import important :(
Eugene wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 4:15 pm Hey guys, who can show me with pictures aka photos.....

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 6:50 pm
by retrovan
This is a WBX head, but the ports look something like this

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Not easy to find photo of square port but here is a close up

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Normally has round ports.
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Herman

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:16 pm
by Eugene
Thanks Herman, now, was that so hard? :-)

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 8:29 am
by Blitzkrieg
The difference in in the EXHAUST ports....Square vs Oval /round not the INLET.

I have square port heads at home that I can take pics of.

Inlet manifolds are mostly interchangeable with the exception if the 3 bolt 914 specific heads.

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 10:28 am
by marcw
Square versus Oval from Google


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I have both however, changing between them is a costly endeavour having to purchase new exhaust for oval.

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 10:31 am
by Vintage man
I have both sets of heads

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 12:49 pm
by Dawie
In the end, you just need a matched set of heads and heat exchangers.

There is a lot of misleading info on USA websites, as they never had "rest of the world" carbed 2L CJ or CU engines there, only their different smogged fuel injected versions.

Square port heads were introduced - last year of 2L bay production. (1979).
Last year of CJ engine had a special one-year-only heat exchanger. Similar to earlier ones except for the square ends where it meets the heads.
CU-heat exchangers from the square-shape t25/t3 kombi differ by not being fed air from the cooling fan. Instead there is a separate little fan connected to the alternator pulley. So air-ducting of CU heat exchangers are also different from square port CJ/baywindow exchangers and not interchangeable.

By the way only USA code "GE" engines had hydraulic lifters. Introduced there around 1977, so some earlier oval port engines in the USA also had hydraulic lifters. Their earlier solid lifter engines were identified by code "GD". Most of the US 2L engines had totally different "F-shaped" heat exchangers, some combine with catalysts and lambda sensors. Irrelevant to "rest of the world".

CJ- 2L baywindow engines never had hydraulic lifters, even the last square port CJ's were solid lifter. VWSA made a big fuss with the introduction of the newer shape kombi with it's CU engine, saying that for the first time their kombis had hydraulic lifters.

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:52 pm
by Eugene
Thanks for the info so far guys

Ok, so I do know the CJ and CU heads are interchangeable. I am sitting with one each, CJ and CU engine. I am looking to have one rebuilt, using the CJ setup and tinware but the CU heads with hydraulic lifters. I am only looking to strip one motor so wanted to ensure that somebody in the past did not fit manual lifters to a CU engine. As per the attached pics, the only visual difference, without removing exhaust, is the pushrod tube retaining wire.

Here the CJ head with retaining wire
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and the CU without

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unless you can see some other differences?

Re: CJ vs CU heads

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 4:31 pm
by sean
You will have to remove a lifter to check for sure. You cant assume the CU motor has hydraulic lifters, some one could have changed it. I have found it before. The lifter sits in the block, so doesn't matter what head is fitted to the motor.

Also note if you plan to use those CU heads in a baywindow, the heater boxes are longer if they from a CU microbus engine, so your silencer will not fit and press against the bumper.

I would advise to stick with the CJ heads if its being fitted into a baywindow.