The 1.8T and 1.9/2.0TDI are absolutely dominating eastern europe tuning scene. Literally, every second VW group car is equipped with one of these tuned to 300+ hp
@@mvelomthethwa880 Most of the 1.8T have forged crank from the factory so you won't have to worry pushing 300hp on stock internals. I don't know about the 1.9TDI but the 2.0TDI have also forged internals but a very weak head. Solve that and its a great platform for 300+hp and alot of torque
I had this engine 13 years in my '99 AUDI A4 B5 QUATTRO and it had over 300 000 km without a problem. Incredible work. Amazing engine. And it still had original turbocharger :)
Mines at 290k and it's alright, I don't daily drive it anymore but it's starting to get issues. It's had four turbos in its life, I've put two on it over 6 years. The main issue is gaskets and accessories, I can't really fault the engine.
As someone who drives a 1.8t 20v Gen 3 on a daily basis, i can agree. These engines can be pushed to 250 hp with nothing but a tune, and are able to break 9k rpm with minimal part replacements allowing for power ratings north of 500
My first two cars both had 20v 1.8Ts, never did tune them, honestly a MkIV GTI with 180 HP was a bit of a muscle car stock so I focused on chassis and driver upgrades with those cars! Was religious with 5000 mile oil changes and the problems I had past 100k was a bum coilpack, a coolant temp sensor going bad, and after a decade it finally developed the tiniest valve cover leak so it got a new gasket. Never burned a drop of oil! Great motors. I'm on to an EA888 1.8T with a stage 1 tune now and it's a different beast to drive but no problems at 5 years and hoping it'll stay that way! One thing you could've mentioned is their racing pedigree, built 20v 1.8Ts with up to ~500 HP were the Formula 2 engine for awhile.
As a mechanic I probably made over $100,000 alone off 1.8t broken timing belts and leaking timing chain tensioner seals and coolant flange failure. And not to mention breather systems made of garbage. So sad how many of these owners refused to rebuild the breather systems. Resulting in the turbocharger boost leaking into the crank case. Of which no engine should be asked to endure. I love em. Chip tune em and the first person who drives it will buy it.
Yeah. No one talks about the timing chain failure on this engine. I personally am not a fan. Seen too many of these engines junked because of timing chain problems
Built a Golf 4 fwd some years ago with an upgraded turbo. Car ran amazing, so amazing that it started snapping front axles and blowing turbo pipes. Turned out the wastegate was stuck shut and the engine was seeing 40+ psi of boost on mainly stock internals. This engine is bulletproof.
@@sn1per.-992 Yes, I measured everything, and this is how we found out the waste wasn't working. All sorts of things broke on the car, but the engine! ;)
@@sn1per.-992 German Engineering died around 2004, everything after was made to break. I have a friend who studied engineering in Germany and he said the following: 5 year program, 4 years they teach me how to fix and make things indestructible, the last year they teach me how to make it as cheap as possible and planned obsolescence. As a former owner of a modern BMW, I agree with him. 🙂
its a shit engine but its the least shit VW engine. The others especially anything between 2 and 3 liters wont make more than 150'000 km before the engine is destroyed
I was quietly hoping you were going to cover this engine, I’m glad you did, for someone like me who’s running this engine at 642bhp / 516ft-lbs in my S3! Even I’m learning something new, I enjoyed the history element of where it all began! These engines are fantastic and it will be sorely missed as with all the combustion engines slowly fizzling out to make way for the electric/hydrogen scene.
@@d4a ICE won't ever fully die until batteries are light enough for planes and waterproof enough for boats; until then, we just have to get more creative about parts sourcing & engine swaps
The Iconic engine series is so well researched and I appreciate the time and effort it takes to put it all together Love them so much keep up the good work!!
I had one of these in a Passat B5.5, I had it remapped and it turned into a completely different animal, SO much extra torque all throughout the rev range, it was amazing. Got me hooked on tuning the minute I did my first 2nd gear pull!
I happened to buy one by random chance. I was shopping for my first car, and the first one I stumbled upon was an '03 passat with a 1.8t. I didn't know much about cars then. But I did like the car in general, it seemed decent. Brought on the spot before I found out the 1.8T is probably the best engine I could've, and did get at my budget. Currently eagerly waiting till I'm able to get a job and upgrade my passat. I swear I will drive it until it refuses and is too expensive to repair. which might be sooner rather than later given its an automatic model... :(
@@Bomkzmanual swap with the 6 speed transmission (relatively bulletproof as long as fluids are kept maintained) and get vcds with a laptop so you can recode it to a manual mode ecu. If you take care of its failure points(cam tensioner, timing system) refresh its compression every 200k miles and do oil changes every 3-5k/monitor potential oil issues and you got a pretty much bulletproof system. Keep an eye on the online sites like urotuning. When they had a labor day sale I bought all the gaskets, rebuild kit, timing system, cam chain tensioner, bolts and whatever else needed for less than $1000 total. I recommend replacing the timing components every 60k miles which might seem a little excessive but a tbelt snap ruins the engine so its not worth the risk. Well maintained and kept up these engines can be YOUR lifetime engine. Beats spending 20k on newer used cars where the transmission will fail on you way before the engine does
@@100W-z2c well, I don’t think technically it caused it to drop too much. But it made it much more fun to drive so of course I put my foot down much more often and the economy dropped a fair bit. I think overall I actually was only getting like 28mpg (uk gallons). Mostly around town driving though.
My dad had a MK1 Octavia VRS with this same engine in it. It holds a special place in my heart because it was that car that got me into modifying and performance cars. I'm so glad to be able to learn more about this incredible engine. Thank you so much for making this video!
I had a brand new 2002 Oct Vrs, wound it out to 320bhp with bolt ons and a map, ran it for 100k miles in that tune before I sold it only ever having done nothing more than oil changes and timing belts. such a strong motor and a great car!
I put a stock-block AWP 1.8T into my MK3 Jetta in 2002 and put a T3/T04E 50 trim turbo, tubular manifold and SDS management on it. Tuned the fuel and timing maps on the street using a knock box and a wide-band (they were rare at the time.) I ran it at ~300 whp and up to 8250 rpm for three years straight, and it never missed a beat. The timing belt skipped a tooth once, simply reset it and ran it another year without issue. When I finally opened it up to install aftermarket rods, I was shocked at how clean it was. All valves straight, bottom end bearings looked new etc... Solid engines for sure.
1.8t engine is amazing, for sure can can take way more power reliable 500+hp with just rods. Plenty of evidence out there that proves this. Good video!
500HPout of an small inlinefour, but more displacement rendering an engine so much more drivable. Always will prefer an VR over the small Turbo-Establishments...
@@tt-rs1457 But the 1.8t is still easier to mod, with a vr you need to turbo it first otherwise the vr engines are pretty slow. If you have the money and the experience on modding cars then build a vr6t, otherwise just buy a 1.8t and start learning on it.
yeah you can run 500hp on that engine for about 200km before it is destroyed. Just because you can reach those numbers doesnt mean the engine can run standard on that
Had a 1.8 audi tt when i was 16. My dad was a master tech at the audi dealer and he chipped my car and it made it amazing. Got 300hp and it got out of first gear without giving it gas. One of the best engines ever. And hella fuel efficient
Thank you for the great and comprehensive insight. I do however, have one comment: The EA111 family of engines (Audi50, Polo) was originally designed for lower displacements of 0.9 to 1.3 liters. Their bore center distance is 82mm.
Thank you Thank you Thank you! The 1.8T is one of the best cheapest engine to tune, mine is 300bhp hybrid turbo on stock internals for the past 6 years with not a single issue.
@@rosco3223 Ehh that is a tricky one lol.. MK4 is easier to live with as a daily for sure but if it was a choice on which is better to thrash ep3 all day long. MK4 golfs don’t have the best chassis and are a bit numb in that area, their engines however have so much more potential if you on a budget.
try it, when you start learning bit by bit you'll get hooked, I came from a family of mechanics but i for one didnt had any interest in working on cars until one time I got to fix a problem that my family couldnt fix on my car that pulled me in a very deep rabbit hole.
I owned a 2001 VW Golf 1.8T. What a great car! I loved it. Reliable, quick and great mileage. I cried when I sold it for my 2013 VW GTI. ...Love my 2013 GTI just as much.
Thank you for the superb history lesson. :) We bought our 2001 Passat wagon at the end of January 2001, and we are still happily driving it, because of its absolutely ideal size and body configuration. Great combination of driving experience and practicality. The engine itself has given me no trouble, but I have had to replace things like O2 sensor and oil cooler. We have the relatively rare AUG 1.8T. I have always compensated for the undersized oil sump with a huge Mann 950/4 oil filter. At the 18-year mark, we replaced the valve cover gasket, and there were none of the dreaded oil coke ("sludge") particles -- just varnish.
I don't know if you will ever adress diesel engines in this series but I would love to see an episode on the legendary VAG 1.9 tdi engines. There are mainly 2 variants (the VP and PD engines) both being incredible reliable engines with huge tuning potential and were available in pretty much every single audi/vw group car as well.
My first car was a 90 vw fox, 2 door, 5 speed. Grew up around mustangs and vettes, thinking they were what ya wanted to be "cool" and "fast". The black fox was my mom's car. Right before she gave it to me on my 17th bday, she had a family friend, Joe, who was a foreign car lover and mechanic, put new tires, struts, clutch, and a tuneup. That lil thing was something else! I was in love, i raced all kinds of cars, the only one that really beat me off the line was my buddies s10 that had a 305 in it lol. Needless to say, i was hooked on volkswagen speed, and graduating in 2003, i watched as the 1.8t became something that was new, fast, and cool. I couldn't afford one until i was 30, and after buying my 5 speed 1.8t jetta, ill never want anything else.
Yea usually how it goes. Abs stops working some window switches or light bulbs always burning out. The rocker panels and front fenders would rust out but the mk4 jetta is always fun to drive and the drivetrain is reliable
Stock 2001.5 Passat here. The engine feels brisk off the bottom, but it tapers off quickly above 3000 rpm. I remember being shocked after driving it the first time, thinking Where’s the Power? I just learned to drive it like a diesel. It’s much happier, and fuel mileage improved by almost 1/3.
As I remember, this engine got a bad wrap thanks to VW specifying 10K oil change intervals but not clearly stating synthetic oil only, at a time when synthetic wasn't ubiquitous. so many of these died from burned carboned up oil in the crankcase and cylinder head. The longitudinal mounted Passat and others had an even smaller oil pan which made the problem worse.
The reason is because the passats had a habit of bottoming out because of how far forward the engine sits. I had to replace my oil pan because I poked a hole straight through it on a speed bump that I didn't see. Good way to take care of that is with stiffer suspension
Good point. VW/Audi tried to fix this by not only shortening the recommended oil change interval, but also dramatically increasing the size of the oil filter. The goal was not really to improve oil filtration, so much as to increase the surface area to act as an auxiliary cooler. There was also a pretty large issue with the original coil packs in the later years that was famous for leaving drivers stranded.
1gen longlife oil service was not taking driving style and cold starts into the equation. So in vold climate with a lot of short trips the oil was dead a long time before the service light came on. This is why thw next gen codes came with oil sensor in the sump.
@@gavindow7159 Bigger filter had nothing to do with cooling. It increased the amount of oil available. The stup!d americans dumped whatever oil they found on discount and then complained of sludge. The coil will NEVER leave you stranded, ever.
I bought a 2004 Audi A4 B6 Avant 6 Speed manual Bex 1.8T Quattro for $5000 to drive home as I sold my other car and I love it! Seeing this make me want to soup it up to at least 300HP :) Great video Subscribed
Stunning video!!!!! One of the best, if not the best, RUclips channels about engines, bikes and cars. I owned two cars with the 1.8 T 20v 150 cv engine. I loved them both. The only weak point was the camshaft belt, that did not last the 170.000 km mandatory replacement. Keep going my friend!!!
I purchased a Passat wagon with this engine and it was a fantastic drive. Broad torque band, easy revving, smooth and powerful, it made that wagon one of my all time favorite cars. Unfortunately, I learned that long after my ownership, the engine suffered catastrophic failure leaving the second owner to sell at a big loss.
Please, please, please do an episode on the Abarth 1.4 engines (Tjet and Multiair) !! I love this series for how much detail and history you go into🙏. Tuners are pushing over 300hp from these tiny 1.4L engines, they sound amazing also.
Not long ago bought a Audi TT 8N with the BAM engine. I didn't realize the engine was an evolution of such an old design. Interesting to know. Mine is for road use, so after doing some of the normal maintenance items, i may have it remapped but nothing crazy around 250hp would be nice.
daily driven , It has been almost close to 20 years by now my BAM 1.8 TTQ without any breakdown, yes exceept i had to replace 3 sensors ( crank, cams & oil level sensor) plus first rocker cover gasket & serpentine, I did myself & I’m not a mechanic and surprisingly the engine is clean as its new ! and the OE TB is still there in Good shape ! 200K and M1@5-40 always since the D1 i purchased new from Audi ! solid engine !
Just paused the video after the history section to say WOW! Amazing information in an amazing way! You really are a storyteller! Now then...Back to it! 🤓
You man, are either insane or from another planet :) There is nobody on the entire internet who can do what you can. I thought that I have seen all of you. But, oh, how wrong I was! You are just amazingly good at this. I really hope you continue to do this for many years to come.
I also like your attention to detail, you love to fully dive into things, to get the full essence of your focus, this is great. This is the main reason I subscribed to your channel. 🙂
Gezz man, wellllllllll dooooone. We all know about the random changes and the "sometimes this... sometimes that" nature of VAG products. You really got in there and gave really comprehensive info. I can only imagine how much sorcery you had to use to put all this together! WELLLLLLL FRIKKIN DOOOOONE
Great engine. Good compresion 9.5 for turbo engine, port injection, 5valves, iron block, fast spool turbo easy to remap. If the engine breaks down it one of the cheapest engine to rebuild and you can continue to drive it at full throttle like before. P. S. Thanks for the video.
Excellent video, like always!! One only thing: I have a mk4 Gti 150 hp with 06A block and big port AGU head but came with wrist pin in 20mm, NOT 19mm. Really great engine with a lot of potentials.
In Brazil we have a variation of EA111 called AP engine, wich is a most popular engine here. Beeing massively used for tuning and competition applications even today. Its a true masterpiece hahaha... Quem é Brazuca dê um oi
That's because it's made for true permanent AWD systems like in the bigger Audis and VW's, but also made for FWD biased, part time AWD systems like Haldex.
Thanks! What a great presentation ! Subscribed. I'm into Volkswagen TDI engines. It would be great to have such a thorough presentation on the tdi's. Anybody reading this please chime in, maybe we can collectively convince him. Ross
I’m building a mk4 2.0 AEG with a 1.8t cylinder head on top which can put out insane Hp and the parts that you can interchange between the two is incredible. They’re basically the same engine and you can even swap trans between the two.
A few years ago my son was lucky enough to find a 2004 Audi A4 with the Ultra Sport package. It was an S4 without the V6 engine and the fancy headliner. Car was in excellent condition with about 80,000 miles. Bigger injectors, Garrett turbo, tune, South Bend clutch, Billy Boat exhaust, Koni shocks and other suspension goodies, and Michelin Pilot tires. Super nice sleeper.
Except for a few known issues a great engine indeed!!, had it in a new bought Seat Leon Mk1 and afterwards in a Polo GTI 9N3 (remap to 200 hp, 325 NM) Now in a engine swapped Lupo GTI (215 hp) Ps. Nice German rap at the end, sehr schön!!
Hi. Great video. All the information made it clear to me that the parts of the 1.8 turbo fit into any 4-cylinder vw engine. I have a polo 1.6 aft and I have 1.8 turbo parts, which I will install in block 1.6. Drilling 82.5 and stroke 86.4 forged crankshaft, forged connecting rod 144mm 19 piston pin. Great information and great videos. Just like that
This was so interesting. Your content is top notch. I never realized the VAG 4 cyl is pretty much like the Euro LS. Wife dailies a MK7 Golf R. Now I want to do a ea113 build on an old GTI
I had an AEB 1.8T in my 1999 Passat. Nice bulletproof internals, but it ran ridiculously hot, baked every rubber and plastic item in the engine bay, required fast-wearing copper sparkplugs to get a hot-enough spark without retaining enough heat to cause detonation on the next compression stroke, had an old inefficient turbocharger that struggled to provide even stock boost pressure, and had a woefully insufficient intercooler. I mean, I guess it did get points for having an intercooler at all, back in those days, but still. And that fucking belt-and-chain timing system, OMG. Meanwhile the rest of the B5 chassis my Passat was based on was junk. It felt great when everything was working _perfectly,_ but things were never working _perfectly._
I had a passat 1.8 20v b5 non turbo. Honestly I put work into it and sorted everything from suspension components to maf, charging/battery ignition systems. I never had no more problems with it. I loved it and was easy on fuel and was reliable thereafter. Now I have a A4 BEX it's been a hard expensive graft to get it to a standard. I honestly would trade it for my passat.
I have this engine in my 15 A3, very reliable engine. Did some upgrades like a 3.5 in down pipe and a afe power cold air intake. Definitely a great engine!
This engine especially in the s3 can do 400hp+ stock without opening up the engine. That’s truly incredible seriously! I think the high end VW Group sports cars with this engine were given forged internals from factory
Highly doubt it. Running a BAM with 270HP. If the tune is good and torque doesn’t come all at once you are good. Above 300 rods become chocolate pudding
great to see the iconic engine series again. i hope to see more of them in the future or maybe some more exotic ones, like you did with maseratis 6 valve engine
Glad i got to own one in my old TT Quattro 225. was my first forced induction car in first manual car, and I basically rebuilt it from the ground up in terms of maintenance and engine wear items. I had heard great things about this engine, which is why I bought it and now this confirms it.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Volvo engine is dirived from a VAG engine as well. Their six cylinder diesel engine came from VW... I believe it was initially used in the VW LT commercial van...
You forgot Renaults part in it. Renault Safrane version was 170hp but they did leave a little Easter Egg behind - the Volvo tuning marks are reversed on the Renault. Safrane Biturbo was 300hp but be careful of Renault cruise of that period - the logic was a bit deranged - anything within 20mph of the selected speed and it'd take off like a cat with a JATO pack rammed up its ass.
I have a 1.8T in a yellow 2002 Beetle Color concept edition. I've owned many cars but next to my 05' Mini Cooper S, and tuned/restored Saab 900 SPG, it's my third favorite car I've ever driven. It's such a solid and tiny whip but mainly because of the 1.8T, it has so much potential. At 185 hp now it fly's. But soon with a few mods, it's going to be one of the quicker cars on the road. As far as cornering, it's on rails and once the 1.8T is pushing out over 250 hp, few cars will be able to keep up
Pleasantly surprised to learn one of them fancy German engines is actually worth taking the time to tune up. Normally the power potential and price and complexity and reliability and difficulty of maintenance and repair come to mind, compared to similarly priced engines that are much better in all of those regards. Cool to know though that they are pretty casual tuner friendly up to 2 or 300hp. That's plenty enough to have fun and get in trouble with.
@@savereport8788 it's actually really cool because I have 2 of them, one in a Passat and the other in an A4 but that one is dead and needs a new engine. I don't know if mine has ever been tuned but I was thinking about it and was going to do it but the prices went up for the APR tune around here in the states and it used to be 500 years ago now its over 700 and it's just not worth that much to me. I would have done it for 500. I just can't imagine paying somebody over 700 dollars just to plug a wire into your car and upload a file. Seems like robbery.
I looove this playlist . I’d missed Iconic Engines. What a gem of a channel! Can I recommend the American Hemi engine since the LS was covered? Or the Nissan VQ engines?
So what I’m gathering from this is that I’m screwed trying to make any significant power from my beetle. Good to know. Thanks bud. Great video. Keep them coming.
EPIC rap.... worth the sub. Great review of that engine. I was born and raised in Brazil. VWs (at one point) had something like 45% of the consumer market. The vast majority of models used THIS very engine block.
Great video. Having worked at Audi I very much appreciate the brief history lesson. One addition for the car- and language-nerds: The name Horch translates to "listen" in English, which again translates into the Latin "audi", hence this name was chosen for the new brand. If I recall it correctly - but I might be completely wrong here - it was mentioned by a student or son of one of the brand's bosses that Horch translates to audi. Anyway, keep up the great work! Oh, and you might want to add "explained in autistic detail" to the title - nerdism at its finest :D.
I have this engine myself in my Audi a3 8L and it is mega great. Its tone flexibility is super great. At a low cost, I increased its power from 180 horsepower to 223 thanks only to chip tuning. The only major problem I had with him was the Flowmeter failure. Yes, it burns some oil, but it burns a liter per 3000 km so it is a tolerable amount. I regularly change the oil every 10,000 kilometers and I use the 5w 40 funnel from Castrol edge full synthetic, I clean the injectors and it has been used by me for 5 years. AAAA and one more breakdown that took place, unfortunately, when I bought it, after 3 weeks of normal driving, the body on the hot side of the turbine broke. Unfortunately, this is a common ailment in these engines, especially when they are severely torture. Unfortunately, such engines are not produced anymore, Now we have 1.2 liter washing machines with 2 turbines or some 1.6 that fall after a maximum of 100,000 kilometers and this engine, if properly cared for, will run smoothly 40,000 or even more noooo, unless it is tortured to cut off all day long, then it has the right to break the turbine or the block between the cylinder liners or it will let go of the head gasket and the original of a good head is not available.
It's an interesting perspective when you work in the automotive repair trade on the receiving end of those engines. Mechanics laugh about it, calling it a grenade with the pin pulled, yet for some bizarre reason people still sing its praises. I can think of a few key failure points in the earlier 1.8 t's that are prevalent, but I'm guessing plenty of people have already talked about those. that aside I must praise the quality of these videos.
Because a lot of the self claimed 'mechanics' here, are mixing up the 1.8t (prior to 2005) with the later Tfsi models which are a completely different engine, and complete junk.
@@MattyEngland I hear what you're saying and I'm not intent on being argumentative, but from my past experience, issues arose from the start, with a myriad of catastrophic failures of top end components leading to destroyed cylinder heads. With minimal piston to valve clearance even a slight stretch of the timing belt could result in bent valves as well. Probably one of the leading causes of 1.8 T's ending up in the wrecking yard. Like a lot of things if you throw enough money at the 1.8 T you can overcome most of its shortcomings, but why Endeavor to do that when there are so many other choices that are less expensive and far more reliable.
@@ohc23001 Through an owners club I know multiple people who run standard and modified versions of the 1.8t, and I've never heard of either of those issues. I have one myself that I daily, which is 20 years old with 125,000 miles on the clock. It's been modified to 230hp 250ft/lb for the last 6 years, and is still on the original valve train, head gasket and turbo! The factory belt didn't stretch and neither does a decent replacement, (Everyone is know uses the Gates timing kit) so I can only imagine the issues you've seen are from people using a poor quality belt or someone doing the job wrong. It's quite a simple engine to time, but access is a complete bitch on the transverse engines. The belt's meant to be replaced every 60,000 miles or 5 years (whichever is earliest) and you also need to replace the idler pulley and the tensioner at the same time. Also the oil MUST be fully synthetic, and must be changed every 5,000 miles maximum (I change mine at 2,500) The PCV system is quite complicated and becomes brittle with age, but the engine was so widely produced that parts are cheap.
@@MattyEngland w Well I am glad to hear of your good experience and hopefully it will keep running for a long time without any issues. I am speaking from the perspective of a Porsche Audi service tech. A lot of us in the industry tend to share information with other technicians and it is fairly easy to tell when a model line will be problematic. I can think of numerous vehicle lines with inherent issues within the Porsche VW Audi" lines. Every car maker has them.
I'm glad you've been successful with your car, but clearly many have not. After spending two decades as a Porsche /Audi technician, I can only tell you what I've seen for my end.
I have this engine in my 2004 Passat 4 MOTION with the 5 speed manual transmission, which of course includes the famous V A G (Audi) Torsen center differential. My engine code is A W M. It is completely stock with only 114,000 miles on it and I have changed the head gasket, timing belt and all peripherals at 111,000 miles. My model has 170 hp. There was only about 1,800 shipped to America in 2004 with the 1.8 T engine combined with the 5 speed manual transmission and 4 motion all wheel drive, drive train set up. I loved being able to see the 5 valves per cylinder when I took the head off. Having said that, I will not ever alter any of my mechanical engine components unless I am forced to replace them. But, I will eventually get the ECU that changes my horsepower to 225. It still has the 15" 8 spoke aluminum BBS wheels with all their center caps in place. I have brand new Hankook Kinergy 4S2 tires on it and it performs better in the snow than all of the off road jacked up trucks I passed sliding and spinning their wheels because they're too stupid to realize just because you have knobby tires doesn't mean they're made for snow. And no, I will not sell my car.
"Du fragst zu viel mein Freund!" exactly what they would say and afterwards put a gun to your head because they thought you were spying on them 😂 Edit: Dude the rap is dope especially the german part 😉
I drove my.uncles 2000 AUSI S3 that had this engine in it and WOW!! It was soo fun and at the time had power and boost in stock then to throw you back in your seat!!! So much fun to drive!!!
Why did they not just learn the lesson from Toyota's 4AG, I always felt that VW keep messing up and didn't trust the company. After I saw what a loose rivet in a ring gear can do, throwing the engine and transmission out of the hood. VW was recycling tech that didn't have the foundation to do so.
Lol. The switch to German was epic. This was in my first car. an '01 VW Passat (B5.5). Loved that car--hated the transmission. Never tuned it, but I always dreamed about getting a ecu mapping. Brother got one done on his second VW Passat 1.8T ('03). I think his first was also the 1.8T but the first was a '98 (B5), so was the earlier block. Love these engines. They just run. (when you don't get into an accident and total your baby.) RIP Jutta. Ich vermisse dich noch.
I love my EA888 1.8T, tons of torque at low rpm, low ration compression that means regular fuel :D a more money for more modifications, good reliability, decent hp and so many more easy HP with appropiate tunning.
Thank you, you have always touch some topics worth watching, absolutely informative and educating. Thanks again. My bother has a mk3 golf that we will be assembling. Am a Japanese car person crossing over to German and you output on these remarkable cars have provided a pool of information. Thank you again.
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Came for the knowledges. Subscribed for the sweet sweet rhymes in your home language! Great video mate.
Please make ford cosworth 2.0 engine
You forgot to say when you increase the power you need to upgrade the CLUTCH!!
Your German is FANTASTIC!!
The 1.8T and 1.9/2.0TDI are absolutely dominating eastern europe tuning scene. Literally, every second VW group car is equipped with one of these tuned to 300+ hp
yah dat true. keeping and driving both!
They're by no means slack stock the thing is. My dad has one, no issues in like 7 8 9 years hes had it. Super clean oil all the time.
My 1.9TDI still going strong.
Are the internals being changed or they are boosted as stock
@@mvelomthethwa880 Most of the 1.8T have forged crank from the factory so you won't have to worry pushing 300hp on stock internals. I don't know about the 1.9TDI but the 2.0TDI have also forged internals but a very weak head. Solve that and its a great platform for 300+hp and alot of torque
I had this engine 13 years in my '99 AUDI A4 B5 QUATTRO and it had over 300 000 km without a problem. Incredible work. Amazing engine. And it still had original turbocharger :)
95` A4 B5 Quattro, 413 000 km, stock AEB :))
*still driving it
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Mines at 290k and it's alright, I don't daily drive it anymore but it's starting to get issues. It's had four turbos in its life, I've put two on it over 6 years. The main issue is gaskets and accessories, I can't really fault the engine.
2000 b5 passat here atw, 058 block just hit 335 000 miles (540 000 km). Running 3 inch exhaust and a ko4 turbo, everything else is original :D
So glad the 1.8t is finally getting the coverage it deserves on Iconic Engines. It really is one of the best bang for buck platforms available.
As someone who drives a 1.8t 20v Gen 3 on a daily basis, i can agree. These engines can be pushed to 250 hp with nothing but a tune, and are able to break 9k rpm with minimal part replacements allowing for power ratings north of 500
Agree, building a 700hp 1.8t... LaunchBuilt is the channel where it's done
Yeah when youre looking for a sporty car..but the 1.9TDi will forever be their best engine :D immortal
@@MisoElEven real talk 🤣
@@MisoElEven the slowest maybe
My first two cars both had 20v 1.8Ts, never did tune them, honestly a MkIV GTI with 180 HP was a bit of a muscle car stock so I focused on chassis and driver upgrades with those cars! Was religious with 5000 mile oil changes and the problems I had past 100k was a bum coilpack, a coolant temp sensor going bad, and after a decade it finally developed the tiniest valve cover leak so it got a new gasket. Never burned a drop of oil! Great motors. I'm on to an EA888 1.8T with a stage 1 tune now and it's a different beast to drive but no problems at 5 years and hoping it'll stay that way! One thing you could've mentioned is their racing pedigree, built 20v 1.8Ts with up to ~500 HP were the Formula 2 engine for awhile.
As a mechanic I probably made over $100,000 alone off 1.8t broken timing belts and leaking timing chain tensioner seals and coolant flange failure. And not to mention breather systems made of garbage. So sad how many of these owners refused to rebuild the breather systems.
Resulting in the turbocharger boost leaking into the crank case.
Of which no engine should be asked to endure.
I love em.
Chip tune em and the first person who drives it will buy it.
good to know about it
How does the the boost get into Crank case. I have 1.8t and can see if pipes need replacing .
As a mechanic I always have one advice to people that likes vw’s, keep buying them 🥰💰
My timing belt broke .looking for a motor
Yeah. No one talks about the timing chain failure on this engine. I personally am not a fan. Seen too many of these engines junked because of timing chain problems
Those German Bars!! Awesome Rap at the end 🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥
I also really like how you go through the historical aspects of the engine, very interesting.
Very good explained, the 827 block is legendary robust. I have the 1.8T in my 1999 A6, and even with only 150hp it's an fun and thankful engine.
Yes this engine, specificaly cylinder head is iconic in Brazil, like a high end evolution over the ubiquitous AP 8v engine.
AP is a trash
And for those who may not know it, AP is the market name VW Brasil gave to the EA827 engine, meaning "Alta Performance" (High Performance)
@@edinonjunio Damn straight my Gol GTI been breaking necks since 96
Built a Golf 4 fwd some years ago with an upgraded turbo. Car ran amazing, so amazing that it started snapping front axles and blowing turbo pipes. Turned out the wastegate was stuck shut and the engine was seeing 40+ psi of boost on mainly stock internals. This engine is bulletproof.
40psi? DAMN 🤣🤣
@@sn1per.-992 Yes, I measured everything, and this is how we found out the waste wasn't working. All sorts of things broke on the car, but the engine! ;)
@@dreci3001 German Engineering😉😂
@@sn1per.-992 German Engineering died around 2004, everything after was made to break. I have a friend who studied engineering in Germany and he said the following: 5 year program, 4 years they teach me how to fix and make things indestructible, the last year they teach me how to make it as cheap as possible and planned obsolescence. As a former owner of a modern BMW, I agree with him. 🙂
"Du fragst zu viel mein Freund!"
🤣 I laughed so hard. Thanks for that gem.
Love when you speak german
searched for this comment :D
As someone who has visited the Wikipedia page for list of VW Engines, I actually laughed out loud when it was mentioned.
if u pause, the 2.5T EA390 and 3.0/2.9 EA839 items were actually my creations
its a shit engine but its the least shit VW engine. The others especially anything between 2 and 3 liters wont make more than 150'000 km before the engine is destroyed
Since I haven't visited the Wikipedia page I guess I technically know more than you?
😅😂🤣
I had a fun time figuring out the code for the 4.0T, and then realized the entire internet has given up and refers to it as the 4.0T
I was quietly hoping you were going to cover this engine, I’m glad you did, for someone like me who’s running this engine at 642bhp / 516ft-lbs in my S3! Even I’m learning something new, I enjoyed the history element of where it all began! These engines are fantastic and it will be sorely missed as with all the combustion engines slowly fizzling out to make way for the electric/hydrogen scene.
That's a real monster! Congrats. The emphasis is on slowly... I think we have far more time left to have fun than the media is trying to convince us.
Porsche will make synthetic fuel soon
@@d4a ICE won't ever fully die until batteries are light enough for planes and waterproof enough for boats; until then, we just have to get more creative about parts sourcing & engine swaps
@@d4a there's a bot in the comments impersonating you, it tells to contact them on Telegram to claim a prize.
At that amount of power and stress, you probably lose 1 hp every time you start the engine :/.
The Iconic engine series is so well researched and I appreciate the time and effort it takes to put it all together Love them so much keep up the good work!!
"Multiple engines with the same code, and a single engine with multiple codes", you made me laugh !!!
It really is like that, I faced quitr some troubles and mismatched parts due to this till I figured it out 😅.
A VW engine with multiple codes isn’t anything new
@@alexmills1329 Well WE are talking about a 24 year old engine so yeah it in fact isnt new😂
I had one of these in a Passat B5.5, I had it remapped and it turned into a completely different animal, SO much extra torque all throughout the rev range, it was amazing. Got me hooked on tuning the minute I did my first 2nd gear pull!
I happened to buy one by random chance. I was shopping for my first car, and the first one I stumbled upon was an '03 passat with a 1.8t. I didn't know much about cars then. But I did like the car in general, it seemed decent. Brought on the spot before I found out the 1.8T is probably the best engine I could've, and did get at my budget. Currently eagerly waiting till I'm able to get a job and upgrade my passat. I swear I will drive it until it refuses and is too expensive to repair.
which might be sooner rather than later given its an automatic model... :(
@@Bomkzmanual swap with the 6 speed transmission (relatively bulletproof as long as fluids are kept maintained) and get vcds with a laptop so you can recode it to a manual mode ecu. If you take care of its failure points(cam tensioner, timing system) refresh its compression every 200k miles and do oil changes every 3-5k/monitor potential oil issues and you got a pretty much bulletproof system. Keep an eye on the online sites like urotuning. When they had a labor day sale I bought all the gaskets, rebuild kit, timing system, cam chain tensioner, bolts and whatever else needed for less than $1000 total. I recommend replacing the timing components every 60k miles which might seem a little excessive but a tbelt snap ruins the engine so its not worth the risk. Well maintained and kept up these engines can be YOUR lifetime engine. Beats spending 20k on newer used cars where the transmission will fail on you way before the engine does
what happened to your fuel millage?
@@100W-z2c well, I don’t think technically it caused it to drop too much. But it made it much more fun to drive so of course I put my foot down much more often and the economy dropped a fair bit. I think overall I actually was only getting like 28mpg (uk gallons). Mostly around town driving though.
My dad had a MK1 Octavia VRS with this same engine in it. It holds a special place in my heart because it was that car that got me into modifying and performance cars. I'm so glad to be able to learn more about this incredible engine. Thank you so much for making this video!
I've got a mk1 Octavia 4x4 1.8T, it's such a good fucking engine even if it's not the holy grail VRS
Love my mk1 octavia 😃
I'm definitely gonna have to buy a MK1 octavia VRS someday. Purely because of how much I respect and love the car and what it's taught me
What were your dads thoughts about modifying his car? 😉
I had a brand new 2002 Oct Vrs, wound it out to 320bhp with bolt ons and a map, ran it for 100k miles in that tune before I sold it only ever having done nothing more than oil changes and timing belts. such a strong motor and a great car!
I put a stock-block AWP 1.8T into my MK3 Jetta in 2002 and put a T3/T04E 50 trim turbo, tubular manifold and SDS management on it. Tuned the fuel and timing maps on the street using a knock box and a wide-band (they were rare at the time.) I ran it at ~300 whp and up to 8250 rpm for three years straight, and it never missed a beat. The timing belt skipped a tooth once, simply reset it and ran it another year without issue. When I finally opened it up to install aftermarket rods, I was shocked at how clean it was. All valves straight, bottom end bearings looked new etc... Solid engines for sure.
1.8t engine is amazing, for sure can can take way more power reliable 500+hp with just rods. Plenty of evidence out there that proves this. Good video!
500HPout of an small inlinefour, but more displacement rendering an engine so much more drivable.
Always will prefer an VR over the small Turbo-Establishments...
@@tt-rs1457 But the 1.8t is still easier to mod, with a vr you need to turbo it first otherwise the vr engines are pretty slow.
If you have the money and the experience on modding cars then build a vr6t, otherwise just buy a 1.8t and start learning on it.
yeah you can run 500hp on that engine for about 200km before it is destroyed. Just because you can reach those numbers doesnt mean the engine can run standard on that
Had a 1.8 audi tt when i was 16. My dad was a master tech at the audi dealer and he chipped my car and it made it amazing. Got 300hp and it got out of first gear without giving it gas. One of the best engines ever. And hella fuel efficient
Thank you for the great and comprehensive insight. I do however, have one comment: The EA111 family of engines (Audi50, Polo) was originally designed for lower displacements of 0.9 to 1.3 liters. Their bore center distance is 82mm.
Thank you Thank you Thank you! The 1.8T is one of the best cheapest engine to tune, mine is 300bhp hybrid turbo on stock internals for the past 6 years with not a single issue.
If you had to choose only one car. Ep3 or mk4?
@@rosco3223 Ehh that is a tricky one lol.. MK4 is easier to live with as a daily for sure but if it was a choice on which is better to thrash ep3 all day long. MK4 golfs don’t have the best chassis and are a bit numb in that area, their engines however have so much more potential if you on a budget.
I'm not even a car enthusiast, but this episode makes me curious to play around with engines myself...
try it, when you start learning bit by bit you'll get hooked, I came from a family of mechanics but i for one didnt had any interest in working on cars until one time I got to fix a problem that my family couldnt fix on my car that pulled me in a very deep rabbit hole.
I owned a 2001 VW Golf 1.8T. What a great car! I loved it. Reliable, quick and great mileage. I cried when I sold it for my 2013 VW GTI. ...Love my 2013 GTI just as much.
Did you test drive any competitors before buying your second Golf?
@@movement2contact Ford Focus and the Mini. Don't regret buying the GTI one bit.
building a 1.8t 058 motor (11:00) with the aeb head (big port) and a gt2860 currently, what a great motor.
My car is small port with a 2860. Love it! Beat some cars that I never thought I’d beat
Thank you for the superb history lesson. :)
We bought our 2001 Passat wagon at the end of January 2001, and we are still happily driving it, because of its absolutely ideal size and body configuration. Great combination of driving experience and practicality. The engine itself has given me no trouble, but I have had to replace things like O2 sensor and oil cooler. We have the relatively rare AUG 1.8T. I have always compensated for the undersized oil sump with a huge Mann 950/4 oil filter. At the 18-year mark, we replaced the valve cover gasket, and there were none of the dreaded oil coke ("sludge") particles -- just varnish.
I don't know if you will ever adress diesel engines in this series but I would love to see an episode on the legendary VAG 1.9 tdi engines. There are mainly 2 variants (the VP and PD engines) both being incredible reliable engines with huge tuning potential and were available in pretty much every single audi/vw group car as well.
Fun fact, you can build hybrid using TDI block, and crankshaft, to get 2.1 liter engine.
Yeah, but they stink, literally 😅...
Nothing like the smell of sulfur in the morning.
VE* and the PD can be reliable with the correct oil and balance shaft delete (weak balance hex driveshaft and bad oil pump design) 👍🏼
@@szymontrojanowski7565 for extra power 😊
My first car was a 90 vw fox, 2 door, 5 speed. Grew up around mustangs and vettes, thinking they were what ya wanted to be "cool" and "fast". The black fox was my mom's car. Right before she gave it to me on my 17th bday, she had a family friend, Joe, who was a foreign car lover and mechanic, put new tires, struts, clutch, and a tuneup. That lil thing was something else! I was in love, i raced all kinds of cars, the only one that really beat me off the line was my buddies s10 that had a 305 in it lol. Needless to say, i was hooked on volkswagen speed, and graduating in 2003, i watched as the 1.8t became something that was new, fast, and cool. I couldn't afford one until i was 30, and after buying my 5 speed 1.8t jetta, ill never want anything else.
Used to have one of these in a Jetta IV. Had a whole load of problems with the car but the engine was solid.
Yea usually how it goes. Abs stops working some window switches or light bulbs always burning out. The rocker panels and front fenders would rust out but the mk4 jetta is always fun to drive and the drivetrain is reliable
Stock 2001.5 Passat here. The engine feels brisk off the bottom, but it tapers off quickly above 3000 rpm. I remember being shocked after driving it the first time, thinking Where’s the Power?
I just learned to drive it like a diesel. It’s much happier, and fuel mileage improved by almost 1/3.
As I remember, this engine got a bad wrap thanks to VW specifying 10K oil change intervals but not clearly stating synthetic oil only, at a time when synthetic wasn't ubiquitous.
so many of these died from burned carboned up oil in the crankcase and cylinder head.
The longitudinal mounted Passat and others had an even smaller oil pan which made the problem worse.
The reason is because the passats had a habit of bottoming out because of how far forward the engine sits. I had to replace my oil pan because I poked a hole straight through it on a speed bump that I didn't see. Good way to take care of that is with stiffer suspension
Good point. VW/Audi tried to fix this by not only shortening the recommended oil change interval, but also dramatically increasing the size of the oil filter. The goal was not really to improve oil filtration, so much as to increase the surface area to act as an auxiliary cooler.
There was also a pretty large issue with the original coil packs in the later years that was famous for leaving drivers stranded.
1gen longlife oil service was not taking driving style and cold starts into the equation.
So in vold climate with a lot of short trips the oil was dead a long time before the service light came on.
This is why thw next gen codes came with oil sensor in the sump.
@@gavindow7159 Bigger filter had nothing to do with cooling. It increased the amount of oil available. The stup!d americans dumped whatever oil they found on discount and then complained of sludge.
The coil will NEVER leave you stranded, ever.
@@Blade_of_Violet_Chaos No. The oil pan was smaller due to the subframe.
I bought a 2004 Audi A4 B6 Avant 6 Speed manual Bex 1.8T Quattro for $5000 to drive home as I sold my other car and I love it!
Seeing this make me want to soup it up to at least 300HP :)
Great video Subscribed
Excellent video as always, but the humor in this one has my crying I was laughing so hard! Happy D4A Sunday from California!
Stunning video!!!!! One of the best, if not the best, RUclips channels about engines, bikes and cars. I owned two cars with the 1.8 T 20v 150 cv engine. I loved them both. The only weak point was the camshaft belt, that did not last the 170.000 km mandatory replacement. Keep going my friend!!!
Love my EA888 😁
Looking forward to tuning it.
I purchased a Passat wagon with this engine and it was a fantastic drive. Broad torque band, easy revving, smooth and powerful, it made that wagon one of my all time favorite cars. Unfortunately, I learned that long after my ownership, the engine suffered catastrophic failure leaving the second owner to sell at a big loss.
I love how you sprinkle some humour throughout the video, makes it very fun!
Please, please, please do an episode on the Abarth 1.4 engines (Tjet and Multiair) !! I love this series for how much detail and history you go into🙏. Tuners are pushing over 300hp from these tiny 1.4L engines, they sound amazing also.
Kakav si ti kralj! :D Svaka cast na sadrzaju i kako sa lakocom spajas zabavu sa edukacijom!
One of the best youtube videos I've seen on youtube hands down.
Not long ago bought a Audi TT 8N with the BAM engine. I didn't realize the engine was an evolution of such an old design. Interesting to know. Mine is for road use, so after doing some of the normal maintenance items, i may have it remapped but nothing crazy around 250hp would be nice.
@Commendatore I have a mk1 TT 225 since 6 years, the car has 220k km and absolutely no issues, not only the engine.
daily driven , It has been almost close to 20 years by now my BAM 1.8 TTQ without any breakdown, yes exceept i had to replace 3 sensors ( crank, cams & oil level sensor) plus first rocker cover gasket & serpentine, I did myself & I’m not a mechanic and surprisingly the engine is clean as its new ! and the OE TB is still there in Good shape ! 200K and M1@5-40 always since the D1 i purchased new from Audi ! solid engine !
Just paused the video after the history section to say WOW! Amazing information in an amazing way! You really are a storyteller!
Now then...Back to it!
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You man, are either insane or from another planet :) There is nobody on the entire internet who can do what you can. I thought that I have seen all of you. But, oh, how wrong I was! You are just amazingly good at this. I really hope you continue to do this for many years to come.
I’m picking up a mk4 Jetta gls soon and this really helps me learn about a new platform
I also like your attention to detail, you love to fully dive into things, to get the full essence of your focus, this is great. This is the main reason I subscribed to your channel. 🙂
Gezz man, wellllllllll dooooone. We all know about the random changes and the "sometimes this... sometimes that" nature of VAG products. You really got in there and gave really comprehensive info. I can only imagine how much sorcery you had to use to put all this together! WELLLLLLL FRIKKIN DOOOOONE
Great engine. Good compresion 9.5 for turbo engine, port injection, 5valves, iron block, fast spool turbo easy to remap. If the engine breaks down it one of the cheapest engine to rebuild and you can continue to drive it at full throttle like before.
P. S. Thanks for the video.
Excellent video, like always!!
One only thing: I have a mk4 Gti 150 hp with 06A block and big port AGU head but came with wrist pin in 20mm, NOT 19mm. Really great engine with a lot of potentials.
In Brazil we have a variation of EA111 called AP engine, wich is a most popular engine here. Beeing massively used for tuning and competition applications even today. Its a true masterpiece hahaha...
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Thanks!
Thank you! Much appreciated
10:22 lol
I think the wierdest thing about this engine is that it was available in both transverse and longitudanal layouts, but always fwd or 4wd.
That's because it's made for true permanent AWD systems like in the bigger Audis and VW's, but also made for FWD biased, part time AWD systems like Haldex.
Thanks! What a great presentation ! Subscribed. I'm into Volkswagen TDI engines. It would be great to have such a thorough presentation on the tdi's.
Anybody reading this please chime in, maybe we can collectively convince him.
Ross
Thank you for the support. The 1.9tdi will definitely get a video in the future.
I’m building a mk4 2.0 AEG with a 1.8t cylinder head on top which can put out insane Hp and the parts that you can interchange between the two is incredible. They’re basically the same engine and you can even swap trans between the two.
A few years ago my son was lucky enough to find a 2004 Audi A4 with the Ultra Sport package. It was an S4 without the V6 engine and the fancy headliner. Car was in excellent condition with about 80,000 miles. Bigger injectors, Garrett turbo, tune, South Bend clutch, Billy Boat exhaust, Koni shocks and other suspension goodies, and Michelin Pilot tires. Super nice sleeper.
Except for a few known issues a great engine indeed!!, had it in a new bought Seat Leon Mk1 and afterwards in a Polo GTI 9N3 (remap to 200 hp, 325 NM)
Now in a engine swapped Lupo GTI (215 hp)
Ps. Nice German rap at the end, sehr schön!!
Hi. Great video. All the information made it clear to me that the parts of the 1.8 turbo fit into any 4-cylinder vw engine. I have a polo 1.6 aft and I have 1.8 turbo parts, which I will install in block 1.6. Drilling 82.5 and stroke 86.4 forged crankshaft, forged connecting rod 144mm 19 piston pin. Great information and great videos. Just like that
This was so interesting. Your content is top notch. I never realized the VAG 4 cyl is pretty much like the Euro LS. Wife dailies a MK7 Golf R. Now I want to do a ea113 build on an old GTI
That final rap killed me...great video with in depth insight, thank you very much and cheers!
Great history lesson. Auto Union was the cooperation/combination of many great minds.
Thanks for sharing.
I remember my 1.8TQ Audi A4 AEB engined car with fondness. It responded well to the simple mods I did to it. A great little engine!
I had an AEB 1.8T in my 1999 Passat. Nice bulletproof internals, but it ran ridiculously hot, baked every rubber and plastic item in the engine bay, required fast-wearing copper sparkplugs to get a hot-enough spark without retaining enough heat to cause detonation on the next compression stroke, had an old inefficient turbocharger that struggled to provide even stock boost pressure, and had a woefully insufficient intercooler. I mean, I guess it did get points for having an intercooler at all, back in those days, but still. And that fucking belt-and-chain timing system, OMG.
Meanwhile the rest of the B5 chassis my Passat was based on was junk. It felt great when everything was working _perfectly,_ but things were never working _perfectly._
I had a passat 1.8 20v b5 non turbo. Honestly I put work into it and sorted everything from suspension components to maf, charging/battery ignition systems. I never had no more problems with it. I loved it and was easy on fuel and was reliable thereafter. Now I have a A4 BEX it's been a hard expensive graft to get it to a standard. I honestly would trade it for my passat.
AWM B5.5 2002 Passat that I affectionately named Danielle 😊
I have this engine in my 15 A3, very reliable engine. Did some upgrades like a 3.5 in down pipe and a afe power cold air intake. Definitely a great engine!
I've got the BAM 225 modded up to 280 bhp swapped into my mk2 Gold Gti.
Its amazing fun.
That aint bad, what do you think is its hp limit stock?
@@sneez9461 probably 300bhp
I had. Forged one before that 400 , but I recked. It had mad torque steer even in third gear.
@@prawnk1ng damn, thats alot, idk reliability tho🤔
That is not enough Bhp for any performance as gold is very a very dense metal. Hence the car will weigh a lot giving low bhp / ton
@@skegvegas1570 What gold?
Loved my 2002 Audi S3. Stage 2 mods, the thing was a weapon. Now I drive the A5 3.0 V6 TDi and that's such a great engine too
Nice! I had a 1.8T as a first car.
Can you do the 2.7 biturbo or the VR6 engines next?
2.7biturbo video would be great!
You had an engine as a first car?
@@Sahlokniir Was probably drunk when I posted this
watching this whole video and being rewarded with a great and funny rap, with pretty well spoken german to add to it, puts the cherry on top!
This engine especially in the s3 can do 400hp+ stock without opening up the engine.
That’s truly incredible seriously!
I think the high end VW Group sports cars with this engine were given forged internals from factory
Highly doubt it. Running a BAM with 270HP. If the tune is good and torque doesn’t come all at once you are good. Above 300 rods become chocolate pudding
@@zvornicka2718 there’s another VW motor out there it’s called the ABF
@@Manuqtix.Manuqtix that's a mk3 2.0 N/A 16V. Came in the MK3 GTi not the S3
I love the video. My beloved racing peanut (Ibiza 6L FR) has been tuned from 150bhp to 230whp, with lowered stiffer suspension. So much fun to drive.
great to see the iconic engine series again. i hope to see more of them in the future or maybe some more exotic ones, like you did with maseratis 6 valve engine
Glad i got to own one in my old TT Quattro 225. was my first forced induction car in first manual car, and I basically rebuilt it from the ground up in terms of maintenance and engine wear items. I had heard great things about this engine, which is why I bought it and now this confirms it.
I think the volvo/ford B5254T 2.5 liter 5 cylinder would be a great candidate for the next part.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Volvo engine is dirived from a VAG engine as well. Their six cylinder diesel engine came from VW... I believe it was initially used in the VW LT commercial van...
You forgot Renaults part in it. Renault Safrane version was 170hp but they did leave a little Easter Egg behind - the Volvo tuning marks are reversed on the Renault. Safrane Biturbo was 300hp but be careful of Renault cruise of that period - the logic was a bit deranged - anything within 20mph of the selected speed and it'd take off like a cat with a JATO pack rammed up its ass.
I have a 1.8T in a yellow 2002 Beetle Color concept edition. I've owned many cars but next to my 05' Mini Cooper S, and tuned/restored Saab 900 SPG, it's my third favorite car I've ever driven. It's such a solid and tiny whip but mainly because of the 1.8T, it has so much potential. At 185 hp now it fly's. But soon with a few mods, it's going to be one of the quicker cars on the road. As far as cornering, it's on rails and once the 1.8T is pushing out over 250 hp, few cars will be able to keep up
Pleasantly surprised to learn one of them fancy German engines is actually worth taking the time to tune up. Normally the power potential and price and complexity and reliability and difficulty of maintenance and repair come to mind, compared to similarly priced engines that are much better in all of those regards. Cool to know though that they are pretty casual tuner friendly up to 2 or 300hp. That's plenty enough to have fun and get in trouble with.
Well im from Germany, if you wanna buy a mk4 gti at a reasonable price its hard to find a not tuned or modified one 🤣
@@savereport8788 it's actually really cool because I have 2 of them, one in a Passat and the other in an A4 but that one is dead and needs a new engine. I don't know if mine has ever been tuned but I was thinking about it and was going to do it but the prices went up for the APR tune around here in the states and it used to be 500 years ago now its over 700 and it's just not worth that much to me. I would have done it for 500. I just can't imagine paying somebody over 700 dollars just to plug a wire into your car and upload a file. Seems like robbery.
My second car was a B6 Audi A4 1.8T 2001 tuned to ~190hp. Loved that thing!
Awesome! Got the BFB block (163bhp), FWD and have converted (turbo, and injectors) to BEX (190bhp) but with a chiptuning
I looove this playlist . I’d missed Iconic Engines. What a gem of a channel! Can I recommend the American Hemi engine since the LS was covered? Or the Nissan VQ engines?
I work on an autoshop in greece. My boss has a 1.8 20V Audi s3 8l making more than 750+ hp. The potentiall of this engine is unreal.
So what I’m gathering from this is that I’m screwed trying to make any significant power from my beetle. Good to know. Thanks bud. Great video. Keep them coming.
Next up: Lampredi's Fiat Twin Cam engine that powered the legendary Lancia Delta Integrale among others!
That or the 2.0 5-cylinder turbo that powered the Fiat Coupé
EPIC rap.... worth the sub. Great review of that engine. I was born and raised in Brazil. VWs (at one point) had something like 45% of the consumer market. The vast majority of models used THIS very engine block.
Really great small and durable petrol engines , would like to see a video on the OM606 at one point tho :)
I lived 5 years with an aggressive 1.8t AGU. Best engine ever !
I still have my Octavia with the AGU engine for 23 years. Is the laurin klement model. 300 km and go on...
Great video. Having worked at Audi I very much appreciate the brief history lesson. One addition for the car- and language-nerds: The name Horch translates to "listen" in English, which again translates into the Latin "audi", hence this name was chosen for the new brand. If I recall it correctly - but I might be completely wrong here - it was mentioned by a student or son of one of the brand's bosses that Horch translates to audi.
Anyway, keep up the great work! Oh, and you might want to add "explained in autistic detail" to the title - nerdism at its finest :D.
I have this engine myself in my Audi a3 8L and it is mega great. Its tone flexibility is super great. At a low cost, I increased its power from 180 horsepower to 223 thanks only to chip tuning. The only major problem I had with him was the Flowmeter failure. Yes, it burns some oil, but it burns a liter per 3000 km so it is a tolerable amount. I regularly change the oil every 10,000 kilometers and I use the 5w 40 funnel from Castrol edge full synthetic, I clean the injectors and it has been used by me for 5 years. AAAA and one more breakdown that took place, unfortunately, when I bought it, after 3 weeks of normal driving, the body on the hot side of the turbine broke. Unfortunately, this is a common ailment in these engines, especially when they are severely torture. Unfortunately, such engines are not produced anymore, Now we have 1.2 liter washing machines with 2 turbines or some 1.6 that fall after a maximum of 100,000 kilometers and this engine, if properly cared for, will run smoothly 40,000 or even more noooo, unless it is tortured to cut off all day long, then it has the right to break the turbine or the block between the cylinder liners or it will let go of the head gasket and the original of a good head is not available.
Here I was thinking I wanted a V8 to turn into a track car - and my first car is gonna be a 1.8T now
It's an interesting perspective when you work in the automotive repair trade on the receiving end of those engines. Mechanics laugh about it, calling it a grenade with the pin pulled, yet for some bizarre reason people still sing its praises.
I can think of a few key failure points in the earlier 1.8 t's that are prevalent, but I'm guessing plenty of people have already talked about those.
that aside I must praise the quality of these videos.
Because a lot of the self claimed 'mechanics' here, are mixing up the 1.8t (prior to 2005) with the later Tfsi models which are a completely different engine, and complete junk.
@@MattyEngland I hear what you're saying and I'm not intent on being argumentative, but from my past experience, issues arose from the start, with a myriad of catastrophic failures of top end components leading to destroyed cylinder heads.
With minimal piston to valve clearance even a slight stretch of the timing belt could result in bent valves as well. Probably one of the leading causes of 1.8 T's ending up in the wrecking yard. Like a lot of things if you throw enough money at the 1.8 T you can overcome most of its shortcomings, but why Endeavor to do that when there are so many other choices that are less expensive and far more reliable.
@@ohc23001 Through an owners club I know multiple people who run standard and modified versions of the 1.8t, and I've never heard of either of those issues.
I have one myself that I daily, which is 20 years old with 125,000 miles on the clock. It's been modified to 230hp 250ft/lb for the last 6 years, and is still on the original valve train, head gasket and turbo!
The factory belt didn't stretch and neither does a decent replacement, (Everyone is know uses the Gates timing kit) so I can only imagine the issues you've seen are from people using a poor quality belt or someone doing the job wrong. It's quite a simple engine to time, but access is a complete bitch on the transverse engines.
The belt's meant to be replaced every 60,000 miles or 5 years (whichever is earliest) and you also need to replace the idler pulley and the tensioner at the same time.
Also the oil MUST be fully synthetic, and must be changed every 5,000 miles maximum (I change mine at 2,500)
The PCV system is quite complicated and becomes brittle with age, but the engine was so widely produced that parts are cheap.
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Well I am glad to hear of your good experience and hopefully it will keep running for a long time without any issues.
I am speaking from the perspective of a Porsche Audi service tech. A lot of us in the industry tend to share information with other technicians and it is fairly easy to tell when a model line will be problematic. I can think of numerous vehicle lines with inherent issues within the Porsche VW Audi" lines. Every car maker has them.
I'm glad you've been successful with your car, but clearly many have not. After spending two decades as a Porsche /Audi technician, I can only tell you what I've seen for my end.
I have this engine in my 2004 Passat 4 MOTION with the 5 speed manual transmission, which of course includes the famous V A G (Audi) Torsen center differential. My engine code is A W M. It is completely stock with only 114,000 miles on it and I have changed the head gasket, timing belt and all peripherals at 111,000 miles. My model has 170 hp. There was only about 1,800 shipped to America in 2004 with the 1.8 T engine combined with the 5 speed manual transmission and 4 motion all wheel drive, drive train set up. I loved being able to see the 5 valves per cylinder when I took the head off. Having said that, I will not ever alter any of my mechanical engine components unless I am forced to replace them. But, I will eventually get the ECU that changes my horsepower to 225. It still has the 15" 8 spoke aluminum BBS wheels with all their center caps in place. I have brand new Hankook Kinergy 4S2 tires on it and it performs better in the snow than all of the off road jacked up trucks I passed sliding and spinning their wheels because they're too stupid to realize just because you have knobby tires doesn't mean they're made for snow. And no, I will not sell my car.
"Du fragst zu viel mein Freund!" exactly what they would say and afterwards put a gun to your head because they thought you were spying on them 😂
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Dude the rap is dope especially the german part 😉
I drove my.uncles 2000 AUSI S3 that had this engine in it and WOW!! It was soo fun and at the time had power and boost in stock then to throw you back in your seat!!! So much fun to drive!!!
Tuning a naturally-aspirated engine works a lot better if you start with a 2-stroke...but obviously that's pretty uncommon nowadays.
I drive a 2002 Passat 1.8t AWM, I love it, very reliable, decent gas mileage, nice power for a 4 banger.
Why did they not just learn the lesson from Toyota's 4AG, I always felt that VW keep messing up and didn't trust the company. After I saw what a loose rivet in a ring gear can do, throwing the engine and transmission out of the hood. VW was recycling tech that didn't have the foundation to do so.
Lol. The switch to German was epic. This was in my first car. an '01 VW Passat (B5.5). Loved that car--hated the transmission. Never tuned it, but I always dreamed about getting a ecu mapping. Brother got one done on his second VW Passat 1.8T ('03). I think his first was also the 1.8T but the first was a '98 (B5), so was the earlier block. Love these engines. They just run. (when you don't get into an accident and total your baby.) RIP Jutta. Ich vermisse dich noch.
Every 1.8 t I've ever seen was broken or leaking, but I didn't realize the potential.
yes, because they were beaten to death, probably. every other engine would fail before that.
I've had US-built VW Passat with that engine. I remember it fondly, and it basically locked me into VAG brands since then...
I love my EA888 1.8T, tons of torque at low rpm, low ration compression that means regular fuel :D a more money for more modifications, good reliability, decent hp and so many more easy HP with appropiate tunning.
You are a gem, the final rap was just glorious!
This engine is a lengend over south america. Produced from the late 90s all over up 2014. A ture low cost tunner dream
Probably the best video I've watched this year. So informative and interesting....thanks.
Thank you, you have always touch some topics worth watching, absolutely informative and educating. Thanks again. My bother has a mk3 golf that we will be assembling. Am a Japanese car person crossing over to German and you output on these remarkable cars have provided a pool of information. Thank you again.