Vega engine

Greg Hermann bearbvd at cmn.net
Thu Feb 3 23:25:31 GMT 2000


>Ade + Lamb Chop wrote:
>>
>> >Also betcha that the first engines with anything resembling solenoid
>> >operated valves are about as long lived and popular as the Vega engines
>> >were!
>>
>> Vega?? I think I have just made you point! So what is a Vega engine then?
>
>Nobody else has jumped in, so I'll answer even though the Vega is a bit
>before my time:  The Vega engine was a SOHC 4 cylinder with an aluminum
>block with no cylinder liners.  The aluminum had a high silicon content
>to minimize cylinder wear.  I looked at one briefly in the wrecking yard
>- the head seemed to be iron!

It was. And the silicon in the Al didn't do all they claimed it would for
bore wear. The pistons were aluminium, but iron plated.

If Ralph Nader had known diddly about engines, he wudda written a book
about the things!

Greg
>
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