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andy

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clean engine
« on: February 24, 2005, 13:00:32 »
found this while looking through some adds.the car is for sale in new york
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Cees Klumper

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Re: clean engine
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2005, 15:24:34 »
Warning: the Surgeon General has determined that opening this photo link without wearing sunglasses may cause temporary blindness  8) .
Talk about "over the top". I just read a discussion on the German Pagoda forum site, and for the umpteenth time it was stressed that polishing the intake manifold will reduce the surface area by about 50%, thus seriously reducing the cooling capacity which is supposedly not a good thing. Polishing the valve cover has a similar effect. I wonder if anyone has ever established more 'scientifically' what the real effects of this are.
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