RE: [alfa] non-Alfa project for the truly ambitious

[Keith Walker <100662.3423@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I still want one but it will have to wait until I have LOTS of money and
at
least one spare engine (really long timing chain in the middle of the
engines without a tensioner so you have to treat it like a timing belt and
of course remove the engine to replace it)<<

My understanding was that there is a tensioner for the timing chain but
it is not mentioned in the Citreon workshop manuals. The result is the
tensioner was not touched and the chains snapped.

>>This has puzzled me for as long as I can remember, and while totally
off-topic, I have to ask--why is the timing chain on the Merak/SM
engine in the freaking middle of the engine?  It doesn't seem like a
weird thing to do on a prewar straight-8 with a two-piece block, etc,
but why on a modern V6?  (I guess the Honda Hurricane 600cc 4cyl also
has a central timing chain, but it never struck me as so weird.)<<

Shorter engine and the cam shafts can be less heavily engineered.

All the best

Keith
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