Phaeton about to become a rare commodity state-side....

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

But, unlike virtually any other engine layout, the cylinders under each head are not parallel.  They may be far enough apart at the top and not far enough apart at the bottom.  VR6's tend to crack with a little boost pressure, too, apparently - at least they crack way more often than the VW 4-bangers do.  Unlike what we are hearing here about the W12's, at least you have to boost it to get it to fail.  Sheesh.  



Vintage Pheaton owners.  Sounds hard to believe.  I'm sure when, 20 years from now, VW is known as a luxo-esque brand, there will be someone out there who's still in love with their "first real Volkswagen" and can't understand why it was a complete failure. I hope I'll be around to smack them in the head.



BH



 









 --- On Tue 11/15, Dan Bubb < dan.bubb@gmail.com > wrote:

From: Dan Bubb [mailto: dan.bubb@gmail.com]

To: pb3vr6@yahoo.com

     Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:47:57 -0500

Subject: Re: Phaeton about to become a rare commodity state-side....



That's interesting, because if you look at the top of any of VW's<br>narrow angle V engines the distance from cylinder to cylinder is<br>pretty huge which is why they're managing to up the VR-6 to 3.6L.<br>Not saying the cylinder walls aren't thin, just saying there doesn't<br>appear to be a space reason why they should be unlike our humble 4<br>cylinder engines.<br>OTOH the cranks are fitting alot of rods onto a damn short crankshaft.<br>The cranks look pretty spindly to me.<br><br>On 11/15/05, Tonee Northam <pb3vr6@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> The w8 is alot of fun to drive, but I heard that the cylinder walls were very thin and proned to cracking, when he took his sedan in for some minor adjustments, there were three others in the for engine changes, or something of the like.<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing list<br>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br>

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