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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