Re: 2.8 v6 valve crunching

[Gary Bracken <gbracken@dimensional.com>]

I'm looking at the 1998 Audi brochure.  On page 18, it shows a timing
chain for the 30 valve V6.

Cheers -

Gary, in Denver

Andrew Duane USG/PE wrote:

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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