Contents of the Engine Compartment - Help!

Hi! I’m coming to you with a rather unusual topic. I am a video game developer currently working on a car simulation game, and one of the vehicles I plan to include is the Golf Mk1.

Under the hood, I need to place various components and parts that players will be able to disassemble, assemble, and repair. I’ve managed to do this with several other vehicles, but unfortunately, I can’t find any clear diagrams or descriptions of what is under the hood of a Golf Mk1 on the internet, so I decided to reach out to a forum where people might have this knowledge.

In the attachments, I’m including images showing the model of the Golf I have in the game. It already has some components, but unfortunately, I am unable to identify some of them - what they are and what they do. Additionally, I am aware that there are definitely some missing components, such as the fluid reservoirs - unfortunately, these are always in different places in the Golf photos I find online, and I can’t figure out which one is which and where they should be located.

I am asking for your help to identify the missing components and describe the ones that are already in the vehicle. I am not looking for the smallest details, but for the general parts, such as the battery, alternator, etc.

Thanks in advance!





 

You will find many different engines and layouts in the Golf Mk1, not least the many that have been modified.

This guide from a Haynes workshop manual (actually Scirocco rather than Golf, but for your purposes, there's no practical difference) is as good as any to represent an unmodified "GTI" engine bay

Then you have to ask which make and year.
As there are EFI, Carbed, CIS.

Then ADD A/C.  
Then Manual or Automatic.

As my engine on a 92 EFI with a automatic.

Strut Bars aren't on all of them.

Here is a Factory shot.

typ_53b said

You will find many different engine…

OK, thank you very much. This will definitely come in handy.  

Does anyone else know what the round white tank in the pictures I sent was for?

And one more question - what is this silver part next to the battery to which this large black pipe leads?

round white is probably the radiator Expansion Jug.
On early mk1's Golfs/Rabbits it was there, otherwise it was on the left side Strut mount.  

Silver part with big black hose is the CIS fuel Distributor on top of the Airbox
or the Digifant Aitbox
Both are Fuel Injected.