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Re: Colors under the hood, longish.



If I recall correctly the 944 turbo takes this a step further by positioning
the turbo on the intake side. Cool.

Frank
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From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>

>
>Back on topic - the _major_ weakness of the I5 10V engine in turbo form
>is that the bits that have to be cold and the bits that get hot are on
>the same side of the engine block.  In my (not so humble) opinion,
>the _major_ improvement in the 20V engine is not the over-complicated
>valve gear or the Motronic controller - as good as both are.  It's the
>fact that the hot bits and the cold bits are separated by the engine
>block.
>
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