Hi All,

I have a project that is based around a 2007/2008 Skoda Octavia 2.0 TDI, and any help would be very gratefully received. 

 

The project may well kill the car, but that is kind of inconsequential......

 

So, The car has 190,000 miles on the clock, it is not running on the road (no Tax); and I do not think it will ever run on the road again. I just want to use it as a bit of a test bed.

 

My questions are as follows.....

 

If I want to run it at a range of revs, can I cut into the wires to the accelerator and replace it with a potentiometer so I can set the revs while the car is in neutral? If so, what value potentiometer should I use? 

If I want to run it for 4 hours, will the radiator need additional cooling if the maximum revs are 1500 RPM?

I also would like to perform some compression tests between my own tests and also take some photos inside the cylinder to check for damage and wear. It is simple to remove an injector to do these tests?

Also, what engine do I have? I have been trying to look on youtube to find some answers, and for some reason, none of the engines I have seen look like the one that is in my car.... Could someone help me identify what damned engine I have please?

 

 

Thank you for your time looking at this

 

That looks like an 8 valve motor which would be (I believe) a BMM.
From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Škoda_Octavia):

 

2.0 TDI DPF

1968 cc 8v SOHC PD (Pumpe Düse - Unit Injector)

140 PS (103 kW; 138 bhp) at 4,000

320 N⋅m (236 lbf⋅ft) at 1,750

BMM

2007– present

 

18 hours ago, Prof_UK said:

Could someone help me identify what damned engine I have please?

 

There should be a sticker in the spare wheel well that looks like a lot of three letter codes. The top part of that has a line called engine and gear box. The engine code is a 3 or 4 letter code such as the BMM sugested by Mike.

Thank you both 👍😁

It turns out it is a BKD engine in this car. So that is one of life's mysteries solved.....