Subject	I can't vouch for the POS Saturns, but my guess wrt our cars
Posted by	Dave N on December 08, 2006 at 7:48 AM
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In Reply To	something that made me go hmmmm... posted by ZEngineer on December 08, 2006 at 07:34 AM
Message	would be that Nissan needed every millimeter they could get to package that motor under the hood. I'm not sure how much higher an non-interference motor version of the VG30DE(TT) motor would be but I would think that it may have played a contributing role. Certainly there were other, more influential, reasons but I'd still offer that the motor height may have had something to do with it. Dave Little did Bob realize that Harold discovered the elusive "brown note" and was about to put the theory to test Sig Quotes: "Your sausage scares me!" - TT-XTZ 6/13/05 "Or he's having a rough week like the rest of us and decided to take out his agressions of not being breast fed on me." BigTDogg 15:45, 09/25/03 "Pick her up from day care and take her to Dairy Queen for a snow cone." YugoBernie 1/7/04 of course those are canadian bannings and beatings, which after the conversion rate is really only a "hey! stop that!" Chris(NJ) 1/14/04 see the green "n" next to my name? what's COZ? (n/m) - 300zx88 8/11/04
Follow Ups	something that made me go hmmmm... - ZEngineer 07:34:23 12/08/06 i guess - ARA300ZX 07:41:22 12/08/06 Makes me wonder why all engines aren't chain driven - TTFairladyZ 07:45:46 12/08/06 Timing belts are quiet, cheaper to manufacturer and - Atl300zxTT 07:49:21 12/08/06 I30 motors are quiet, efficient and they are chain driven :) (n/m) - ztunerz 12:00:04 12/08/06 i was just stating a generality (n/m) - Atl300zxTT 12:20:32 12/08/06 more efficent too. (n/m) - nemo1080 08:39:34 12/08/06 how so? (n/m) - zxtuner161 09:09:06 12/08/06 When the length of the timing belt (or chain) - thebanman407 10:47:04 12/08/06 All wrong >>> - ztunerz 12:05:49 12/08/06 That doesn't mean the chain won't break. I've seen it - MixManMash 09:22:03 12/08/06 Valves open further in an interference engine - Atl300zxTT 07:45:51 12/08/06 makes sense. Thanks. (n/m) - ZEngineer 07:48:22 12/08/06 finally we touched on a topic i knew something about :) (n/m) - Atl300zxTT 12:28:45 12/08/06 Nice explanation. Thanks. (n/m) - TT XTZ 09:25:15 12/08/06 Man How Do You Know All This Stuff? - spddracer 21:05:52 12/08/06 lol (n/m) - SniPer (SR-71) 08:58:03 12/09/06 I can't vouch for the POS Saturns, but my guess wrt our cars - Dave N 07:48:23 12/08/06 In two words: High Compression - Jmartz 08:04:00 12/08/06 so you would consider the TT engine to be high - Atl300zxTT 08:07:05 12/08/06 It isn't 7:1 like my old 240T (n/m) - Jmartz 10:00:36 12/08/06 Not exactly, it is more about chamber size and - Barry'z (NJ) 08:14:30 12/08/06 Ok, how about higher compression - Jmartz 09:59:16 12/08/06 not really - look at nissans own lineup - the 2000 maxima - ztunerz 12:01:07 12/08/06 That doesn't have anything to do with George's question - Dustin 15:21:33 12/08/06 more efficiant all the way around - nemo1080 08:41:35 12/08/06 not really answering the question but... - spyhunterTT(nj) 13:16:04 12/08/06 I would think that a belt would certainly stretch... - Kong ZTT GT28RS MD 14:28:23 12/08/06 More non-stretching fiber in a timing belt (n/m) - BigTDogg (MA) 14:55:02 12/08/06 nice sig. (n/m) - Kong ZTT GT28RS MD 14:29:11 12/08/06
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