In a message dated 8/29/02 8:56:19 PM, clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM writes:
> I may be wrong, but you'll have to go some to prove that anyone would cast > any significant quantities of mag ally's into an auto engine - for one, all > the threads would have to have inserts. > The VERY early Volkswagen engines (in the orginal Beetles) in the 50s I believe and some of the Porsche engines from that period as well were magnesium blocks. Aluminum alloys replaced them (except in racing engines) by the 60s I think. |
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