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Re: Laser Ignition / cam profiles

To: "List Land Speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Laser Ignition / cam profiles
From: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:04:36 -0800
Actually the valves in current F1 engines are not pneumatically operated.
Nitrogen pressurised pistons replace valve springs in an otherwise
conventional overhead cam layout..
Jim in Palmdale

> Yeah, timing is everything, that's why cam lobes/camshafts are on a path
> towards eventual extinction and that has already happened in Formula 1
> engines with their pneumatically operated valves.






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