Cylinder head for a plurality of cylinders

A cylinder head for a plurality of cylinders of a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine, said cylinder head defining a fire deck;

• a cooling chamber adjacent the fire deck;
• an intermediate deck which is essentially parallel to the fire deck and which divides the cooling chamber into a lower cooling chamber next to the fire deck and an upper cooling chamber remote from the fire deck, a lower cooling chamber being associated with each cylinder and a partitioning wall substantially separating two lower cooling chambers associated with at least two adjacent cylinders, the upper cooling chamber extending over at least two cylinders, the intermediate deck including an opening;
• a coolant inlet per cylinder communicating with a lower cooling chamber;
• a coolant outlet communicating with an upper cooling chamber;
• a pipe for a fuel injector located in said opening in said intermediate deck so as to leave an annular passage between the opening and the pipe to function as a flow opening communicating coolant between lower and upper cooling chambers;
• at least one vent for each cylinder between upper and lower cooling chamber;
• the intermediate deck including at least one transfer port located in an area of a side-wall.