[Vwdiesel] Re: going price of 1.6L turbo diesel engine

[Area31 Research Facility]

I always thought unobtanium was the metal that real extraterrestrial UFO's
were made of.

Rob

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From: "gary" <gbangs at cfl.rr.com>
To: <Libbybapa at wmconnect.com>
Cc: <stephensrw at stn.net>; <cjb at midrivers.com>; "VWDiesel"
<vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Re: going price of 1.6L turbo diesel engine


> The proper term is "Unobtanium" (courtesy 'The Core')
>
> -Gary
>
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 00:37 -0400, Libbybapa at wmconnect.com wrote:
> >  I think the alloy is called "expensivium" or possibly "suckerium" and
> > behaves exactly as the aluminum of the n/a heads.  I have also heard
that the
> > alloy is in fact the same.  I am not a metalurgist (not even sure if I
spelled
> > it right), so I do not know for certain.  Valves may be different.
AFAIK the
> > casting number can be the same for n/a and TD heads of a similar year.
> > Andrew
>
>
>