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Subject:Re: Porsche water cooling (was Re: longivity of coversion engines)
From:Chris Mills
Date:Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:11:12 -0600

Less load on the engine I think. Anyone?

At 11:30 PM 3/27/02 +1200, you wrote:
>>  Liquid cooling also allows for four-valve (or five valve)
>>heads. The only way Porsche was able to get multi-valve heads with air
>>cooling was to water cool the heads (the 959 and 962).
>
>Funny, aircooled Japanese bikes had 4 valves per cylinder way back when!

Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE">
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'78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power)
'65 Beetle - Type IV powered
'99 CR-V AWD station wagon
'81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle
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