[Vwdiesel] Salty valves

[Harmon Seaver]

   Those are quite commonly available for the aircooled VW engines, don't know
about the diesels, but rather doubt it.


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:56:37PM +0100, mark SHEPHERD wrote:
> "Highly rated large bore engines benefit from exhaust valve stem drilling and partially filling with 'a sodium salt', and then closing up open end.
>  When heated up salt melts and being thrown about transfers heat rapidly to the top area of stem"...
>  hence valve guide can remove heat from the valve head; sounds clever to me ;o)
> The Miser
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