RHS engine mount positions

[Peter Jones]

Diesels use the big block mount.

It's fairly unusual to see the small block mounts in Aus, I don't think the small motors were sold by VW here.

All the small block cars I've seen have been private imports.

[Stiggy_21]

that was my next question pete..
did we get any 1.1/1.3's in Aus?? particularly the ones that were built in Clayton, Vic

just trying to find out some mysteries about my new mk1

[gldgti]

AFAIK, none were sold officially with the small engines. Exclusively, we had the aussie assembled 1.6 engined cars (I think perhaps a VERY small quantity of the earliest petrol ones were imported with the 1.5 petrol engine), and the GLD imports that have the 1.5 n/a diesel. Everything else is imported personally or I suppose back in the 80's there could have been a few organised small quantity imports of other models.

There sure are a lot of imports in australia though - south african mk1's, left hand drive cabriolets, GTI's, GLS's, even the odd turbo diesel.

[GLDoldcoot]

somebody once told me they had a three cylinder diesel engine out of a golf. Must have been imported I guess