Re: Timing belts - age of

["Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>
>I think they put the
>timing belt and the clutch master cylinder on a jig and built a car around
them.

I'd been thinking that it was an example of CAD -

Designer #1 "We need to find some free space on the RHD for the clutch m/c"
(Run CAD search)
Designer #2 "The program has identified enough space just here and its
really close to the clutch pedal"

Dont laugh - I've come across worse, like the CAD design for a race car
space-frame chassis that would have required the driver to have major
surgery to allow a cross tube to pass though his chest - at least someone
noticed BEFORE they tried to build it........

Jim Haseltine
88 Ur quattro