Help identifying GSL-SE engine?
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if it was a s4 engine it would have an egr valve on the top of the center housing. its most likely a GSL-SE engine bc if it was a S5 it would have a electric MOP on the front cover, its possable thats its S5 w/ a SE front cover but doubt it.
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It;s definitely '84-'85, no question. You now have two options; GSL-SE or RE-SI. In an RE-SI, the primary intake ports are smaller and the exhaust ports open and close early with 12A timing instead of late timing of a GSL-SE. Show me a close-up picture of an exhaust port and I can tell you.
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The main GSL-SE engine identifier is that it has the engine mount **** between the exhaust ports so you have to modify certain headers to fit. FC engines do NOT have that.
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This 'nub' is supposed to be for motor mount studs similar to the other side where the motor mount is attatched on an FC. Interestingly enough, the 6 port 12As had this nub thing too, making it especially difficult to install a header on them. All you have to do is trim a little steel off the header flange, as I intend to do for my 6 port 12A if I ever do a header on it. Pretty easy.
As for your pictures, those look like classic GSL-SE exhaust ports because you can see they open late as there is more aluminum there to port downward than a RE-SI would have.
The final word is you have a genuine GSL-SE engine. You do not have the slightly more rare RE-SI.
As for your pictures, those look like classic GSL-SE exhaust ports because you can see they open late as there is more aluminum there to port downward than a RE-SI would have.
The final word is you have a genuine GSL-SE engine. You do not have the slightly more rare RE-SI.
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