Re: [alfa] Zat Tensioner Vs Hydraulic in non-hydraulic mode Vs...

[Bernie & Diana Bennett <bennetts77833@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ALL:

What about just putting / swapping a TwinSpark into a Milano or a GTV6 
or a 164 or don't they have chains anymore either? For more power turbo 
or supercharge 'em?

Bernie Bennett
Brenham, TX


alfacybersite wrote:


> Okay, I might have misspoken when I told Orville and Wilbur it would 
> never fly, but when that German car came out in the 60's with a 
> reinforced rubber belt rather than a good old timing chain, said, 
> "There's gonna be nothing but trouble with that set-up."
>
> Boy was I right (for once).
>
> I gather with some makes of cars there are somewhat fewer problems 
> than others (Alfa V6) but when one has a brand new invention which 
> takes an old tried and true, virtually indestructible, part and turns 
> it into an expensive / time consuming / trouble prone one which now 
> becomes a regular replacement part when the car is serviced / breaks / 
> dramatically slips - you have a situation of new technology being 
> jammed down people's throats whether it works or not. NOT!
>
> Even though I do have a shop manual for the GTV6 / Milano I'm not 
> going to bother looking at the engine stuff - but if someone could 
> come up with a case completely enclosing the timing "area" (carbon 
> fiber?), change sprockets, install a simple chain tensioner as found 
> on the 4-cylinder's, and figure out how to get oil to it all - 
> wouldn't life be so much simpler?
>
> Sure, you'd have a little bit more noise going on under the hood, but 
> how many of you V-sixers wouldn't exchange a little metallic racket 
> for the piece of mind knowing the "belt" should now last almost until 
> eternity?
>
> Just a Sunday thought,
>
> Biba
> Irwindale, CA USA
>
> (Quote from 10/04 Road & Track): "...mid-mounted 6.2 liter 4-cam V-12 
> wrecking ball that gulps air and fuel and generates equal parts 
> thrust, music and awe. Now with the Murcielago Roadster these sensory 
> inputs are intensified. At most, a small square of window plastic and 
> layers of canvas come between your ears and the mechanical concerto 
> (emphasis on the whirring and clicking of the valvetrain)."
>
> Next Sunday's sermon will be titled "Front Wheel Drive. Why?".
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