In article >,
Catman > wrote:

> George Graves wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > "Gio" > wrote:
> >
> >> > Only officialy available in 2 colours: Red for the SZ, yellow for the
> >> > RZ.
> >>
> >> not that true ..... SZ was officially available only in Red, the RZ
> >> officialy: Yellow, Red, Black ..... then there were some exepctions made
> >> for Mr. Zagato personally (silver RZ and black SZ I think)
> >>
> >>
> >> http://home.wxs.nl/~evdbeek/monster.html <= many many informations on
> >> the Mostro di Milano
> >
> > The RZ/SZ site's history is wrong in one respect. It says that the
> > engine was a 3.0 liter DUAL overhead cam unit. It was not, it was a
> > stock 3.0-liter 'S' engine which was a SINGLE overhead cam motor. Alfa
> > didn't have a DOHC V-6 until 1994.
> >
> Well, to be fair, there *are* two cams

I understand. But the convention in V engines, as long as I have been
interested in cars (more than 40 years) is to refer to the number of
cams per bank as the deciding element in the distinction between DOHC
and SOHC. Yeah, it's semantics, but to someone who doesn't know these
engines, it could be misleading.

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George Graves
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