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Re: 2.8 v6 valve crunching

To: ggthack@swansea.ac.uk (Graham Thackrah)
Subject: Re: 2.8 v6 valve crunching
From: Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:02:22 -0500 (EST)
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net (Quattro List)
In-Reply-To: <9803201516.AA00833@rhubarb.swan.ac.uk.swan.ac.uk> from "Graham Thackrah" at Mar 20, 98 03:16:26 pm
Reply-To: duane@zk3.dec.com
Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net

Hairy green toads from Mars made Graham Thackrah say:

> Are you sure the 30-valve is a timing chain design? I think I remember seeing 
> a nice cutaway drawing of one of these, timing belt for each inlet cam and a 
> chain connecting the inlet to the exhaust cam. This is run over a hydraulically
> operated piston on the engines with variable valve timing.

I'm almost positive it showed a timing chain in the A4 brochure.
Don't have it handy, so I'm not going to bet money or beer on it :-)

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References:
- 2.8 v6 valve crunching
  - From: ggthack@swansea.ac.uk (Graham Thackrah)

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