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diesel valve springs



Considering that a diesel is COMPLETELY reliant on getting as much air in
the cylinder per stroke, it would not surprise me in the least that the
cam profiles were agressive.  Remeber folks, these are CI engines, not SI.

Eric


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Kevin Collins wrote:

> Ron Wood once told me that Techtonics "HD" valve springs *used* to simply be
> OEM diesel springs.  That was BEFORE they got a batch of horrendously bad
> ones from some other supplier..  :0
> 
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> Kevin Collins
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> '86.5 16V 2.0
> '02 GTI 337
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