On 2/16/2011 5:05 PM, briankk wrote:
There is an Isetta crowd. Look at the microcars - minicars group. It's frequently entertaining.
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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