Patent ID: 8522731

Claim:
A water-cooled internal combustion engine with a cast cylinder head comprising: an intake-side side wall; an exhaust-side side wall; opposite end walls, the opposite end walls perpendicular to the intake-side side wall and the exhaust-side side wall and perpendicular to a crankshaft; a water jacket surrounded by the side walls and the end walls; a first cooling water exit part formed by casting on one of the intake-side side wall and the exhaust-side side wall; a second cooling water exit part formed by casting on one of the end walls; and at least one machined exit opening formed selectively in one of the first cooling water exit part and the second cooling water exit part depending on a position in which the internal combustion engine is to be mounted on a vehicle, wherein each of the first cooling water exit part and the second cooling water exit part has at least two mounting bosses, and a cooling water outlet member is attached, using the mounting bosses, to one of the first cooling water exit part and the second cooling water exit part in which the exit opening is formed.