howling after T-belt job?

[David]

So from the sounds of this, the NG is non-interferance at low RPMs and interferance at high RPMs? How is that possible? We don't have any kind of variable vales or anything, right? I'm so confused...

Dave

>
> From: Jim Green <jeg1976 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/07/23 Wed AM 11:47:37 EDT
> To: mswanson at sonitrol.net,  David <duandcc_forums at cox.net>
> CC: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Re: howling after T-belt job?
>
>
> --- Marc Swanson <mswanson at sonitrol.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Huh? NG is non-interferance? Really? I head that
> > there had been documented cases of valve collision
> > in a case of a broken belt. So, what's the truth?
> > Interferance or non-interferance...
> >
> >
> > well, I can tell you that on an NG you can take off
> > the belt and spin
> > the crank or cam with no interference.  That said,
> > if things are a bit
> > out of tolerance I imagine the possibility exists
> > that you _COULD_ get
> > valve-piston collision.
>
>
> I've done it, belt snapped at 5k, bent 4 valves.  I
> wish I would have put that $1K into the turbo swap
>
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