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Re: [Land-speed] How About - - No Cam at all?

To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, "lsr list autox" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] How About - - No Cam at all?
From: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:17:03 -0700
The Knight sleeve valve engine certinly ran in lots of cars in it's day. And 
the engine in the Supermarine Sea Fury I believe was a radial sleeve valve 
engine. Plenty of rower there.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: "lsr list autox" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 4:46 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] How About - - No Cam at all?


> The use of a valve train consisting of camshaft, lifters, pushrods, 
> rockers and heavy springs is really a fairly primitive way to open and 
> close valves, and is certainly a performance limiter.  It seems like with 
> the current development of electronic fuel injection, the same elctronics 
> could be applied to opening anc closing valves.  Sort of a solonoid, 
> operated by the same kind of ECU as EFI, in place of the entire valve 
> train.  Any thoughts?
>
>  DickJ
>  In East Texas
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