Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Air Cooling ?

 

Back in the day, BMW imported a strange little vehicle they called the Isetta.  It was driven by a (350? 650?) parallel twin motorcycle engine that had sodium cooled two piece valves, and as I recall, the reason that most of the Isettas failed was that valve broke in two and destroyed the motor.  Bunch of college kids I was hanging with at the time, one of whom owned an Isetta, found a way to near enough directly replace the BMW valve with a very (dimensionally) similar Chevy six valve, which would last forever.  Don't know if that ever caught on with Isetta crowd.  Or even if there was an Isetta crowd...

bk

--- On Wed, 2/16/11, Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com>
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Air Cooling ?
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 1:46 PM

 


Well yeah ;

Using .35 CENT , two - piece valves then leaning out the fuel mixture WAAYYY below it's design parameters will do that...

-Nate
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> I remember all those VW's sucking a valve on # 3 cylinder tho. Max
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