Engine control device

A control device configured to control an engine mounted on a vehicle, the engine provided with an engine body including a plurality of cylinders, a plurality of independent intake passages, each connected to the engine body so as to communicate with a combustion chamber of each of the cylinders via an intake port, and a surge tank connected to an upstream end of each of the independent intake passages, the control device comprising:

• a phase changer configured to change a phase of an intake valve configured to open and close the intake port of each of the cylinders;
• an ambient temperature sensor configured to acquire an ambient temperature;
• and
• a controller configured to control operation of the phase changer and acquire an amount of condensate water existing in the surge tank,
• wherein when the engine is stopped in a situation where both of a first condition in which the ambient temperature acquired by the ambient temperature sensor is lower than a given reference temperature and a second condition in which the amount of condensate water in the surge tank acquired by the controller is above a given reference amount are satisfied, the controller controls the phase changer so that a lift amount of the intake valve in each of the cylinders of the stopped engine becomes outside a given minute lift range.