Re: 2.8 v6 valve crunching

[Josh Pinkert <flush@us.net>]

At 03:16 PM 3/20/98 +0000, Graham Thackrah wrote:
>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.
>
>Graham.
> 

You are correct.  Every diagram I've seen of the 30V motor, including a
cutaway engine at the autoshow, had the 30V motor in the configuration you
describe.


- Josh Pinkert
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