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European 16V Corrado camsets from the Digifant 16Vs???



Is this right? I don't think Volkswagon ever sold a 16V Digifant engine... 
Did they?

-RGK-


At 08:35 PM 1/17/03 -0500, Drew MacPherson wrote:

>ABF is in fact a 16V Digifant engine, 150bhp.
>
>INstalled in Golf GTI 16V, Vento (supposedly, although I could not find
>evidence of it) and Passat.  Not in Corrado though.
>
>Part numbers for cams:
>
>ABF     INTAKE  051 109 021
>ABF     EXHAUST 051 109 022
>
>
>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Matt Coates wrote:
>
> > Sounds like ABF cams are the ones.  I found this link while searching 
> vwvortex:
> >
> > http://membres.lycos.fr/philippe840/clubabf/GolfGTI/camshaft.php
> >
> > lots of cams specs, looks like TT and ABF are slightly different.
> >
> > Anyone ever use ABF cams?
> >
> > the search continues...
> > Matt
> > --- Joe Doty <Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com> wrote:
> > > That motor I believe is the ABF, which is in all mk3 16v powered cars in
> > > Europe.  Supposedly the Techtonics 16v camset is a copy of the ABF
> > > camset, and the ABF cams are supposedly better than the KR camset (same
> > > as US camset, w/ "euro intake cam").  So that would make your friend
> > > correct.
> > >
> > > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > >
> > > Joe Doty
> > > IT/Development
> > > joe@lcnetwork.com
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Matt Coates [mailto:bencoates@yahoo.com]
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 7:54 AM
> > > > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > > > Subject: European 16V Corrado camsets from the Digifant 16Vs???
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone heard of these?  A local VW guru I spoke to says they are
> > > > better
> > > > cams than just the euro intake.  According to him they have better
> > > high
> > > > rpm
> > > > breathing and don't sacrifice torque.  He said these were used in the
> > > > 150hp 16v
> > > > euro corrado before they made the G60.
> > > >
> > > > Is he blowing smoke??
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > Matt
> > > >
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