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These engines are desinged to handle continuous driving with high speeds.
These chains don´t add much friction to the engine and since they aren´t that long they won´t jump over after some thousend kilometers.

Technically it is actually more complicated but it's all in one place.

Funny, the old inline 5 used a belt.

It still gets 55/45 ballance.
Indeed, but a single belt for a V engine isn´t very relieable since the belt wou need to be insanely long.

The Audi V8 was designed to hang out ahead of the front axle, so it had to be as compact as possible to no completely fuck the weight balance. The chain-driven one is only like 18" long.
This means they had to use a tiny bore and relatively long stroke, which pretty much gives it the same problem as an old Chevy 305. It does of course use 4 valves per cylinder so the heads aren't as restrictive, but it's still a design weakness.

yeah its a shitfest

but honestly, the sound it makes

that spaceship-esque whine the timing chain makes is delicious.

i miss my b6 s4

all the people complaining about audi's 4.2 clearly have never driven a car with one : )

There's probably a reason for that that 99% of Audi customers will never use, but they do it anyways because muh vorsprung durr technic.

German technology wins at le mans because for 24 hours it's the best. After that it will break.

>aren't that long
Die
Look at that retarded one on the bottom all bent over itself.
That alone is completely unforgivable. Don't even mention the rest.
Some fucking autistic cunt was so sure that chains were superior to gears or ANYTHING ELSE he was willing to stake the well-being of Audi's reputation on it. Then Audi cheapened out, making most of it out of plastic. FUCK THEM ALL. At least the Chinese have an excuse for being this shit.
Look at the Northstar's timing chains and tensioners.
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it doesn't have to be Audi complicated.

How much does that Audi V8 weight? I bet it's as much as a iron block truck LS.

Apparently it's like 360lb with most accessories, and that's for the older, bigger, belt-driven ones.