KenCo <kenco.fish@verizon.net> wrote:
: jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
:>
:> Interesting! Drive to the strip getting 30mpg, punch a few keys on
:> the laptop, and whip yourself up a Pro Stock cam? :-)
:>
:> Any idea how far along they are with this? I would imagine this
:> will take a very special solenoid! At 6,000 RPMs on a V8, each valve
:> would have to open and close what, just over 12 times per second?
:>
:> Interesting stuff.
:> //www.jonsteiger.com ----'
: fwiw
: a fuel injector selonoid does that now.
True enough. It'd take a pretty beefy solenoid to work against a
valve spring though, and usually as stuff gets bigger it gets slower.
I wonder what sort of cost these solenoids have? Who knows, with a
solenoid design, perhaps the valve springs can be eliminated
altogether, and the solenoid can pull the valve shut.
---Jon-
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