On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:55:36 GMT, George Graves
> wrote:

>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.

I agree 100%, I *was* only teasing

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