Engine Code Help

[MikhailY]

I’m sure this has been asked numerous times, but even with the search bar I can’t find specific answers. I’m currently working on my 1974 standard Beetle, and just with everything else that’s been frankensteined on it I’m trying to get ahead, so any help is appreciated greatly. I can’t seem to decipher the engine code. I’m beginning to believe it definitely isn’t original. FU5200X6 is what it looks like.

[Schepp]

The engine code unless it’s the factory engine, which they never are is pointless. It could be modified 130 different ways. Pics will help us figure out what you have.

[MikhailY]

[glutamodo]

Yeah definitely not a VW stamp. You'd have to ask whomever put that there what meaning it had.

Often times, even the factory engine serial number doesn't mean a whole lot, it tells you how the engine started out but nothing about what all the various owners did to it over the decades.

FYI - the factory production line engines were either seven numbers, or one letter followed by seven numbers, or two letters plus six numbers.

You can go under the engine, and clean off the side of the case under the pushrod tubes and see if it says Brazil or Mexico. I'm already going to guess it has 8mm head studs and two oil pressure relief valves, but those are details you can see from outside. And that's about all you can see.

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