- 1. interesting cylinder head design (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Clements" <mikec@actional.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:25:38 -0700
- Anyone ever heard of this before? Looks really cool to me. http://www.coatesengine.com/eGallery/pages/RotaryValveSystem.htm As I understand the picture, there's a hole in the top of the combustion ch
- /html/autox/2003-08/msg00142.html (8,583 bytes)
- 2. Re: interesting cylinder head design (score: 1)
- Author: "Brian Berryhill" <solo2probegt@cableone.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:04:16 -0500
- I found this interesting as well: http://www.coatesengine.com/lookmom_noCamshaft.htm Seems like the sealing mechanism was the big drawback, and understandably. In a normal engine, the combustion work
- /html/autox/2003-08/msg00147.html (7,944 bytes)
- 3. Re: interesting cylinder head design (score: 1)
- Author: Matthew Carson <mcars@vt.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:24:34 -0400
- I have to be a bit skeptical of this. Sure it may do well from a mechanical standpoint, but what about airflow? I can't see how you can get the airflow you want from air trying to make it through a s
- /html/autox/2003-08/msg00157.html (10,140 bytes)
- 4. RE: interesting cylinder head design (score: 1)
- Author: "Talley, Brooks" <brooks@frnk.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:22:37 -0700
- I'm no engineer, but I do have thoughts on this. Maybe in part because I tried to develop a camless drivetrain in high school and, while it was a complete disaster, I did live through the experience.
- /html/autox/2003-08/msg00158.html (9,099 bytes)
- 5. RE: interesting cylinder head design (score: 1)
- Author: Matthew Carson <mcars@vt.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:36:47 -0400
- True, it has to flow around a valve now, but when the valve opens there is air already directly behind it to be pulled in. And when a conventional valve is open, if you look at the airflow, it reall
- /html/autox/2003-08/msg00163.html (10,759 bytes)
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