"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
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Urambo Tauro
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
11/29/2016 at 20:35 |
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47 percent more torque, 45 percent more power, 15 percent less fuel and 35 percent fewer emissions from an engine that’s also smaller, lighter and cheaper to manufacture.
Get. Out.
That’s awesome !
Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
11/29/2016 at 22:51 |
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Explained by the man himself. It’s smaller, lighter, more powerful, no direct injection. This is awesome!
kanadanmajava1
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
11/30/2016 at 08:49 |
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Their technology is very interesting. I have been following the development of camless engines for quite long. During my studies, worked at the local university’s internal combustion lab. We had there two prototype diesel engines running with hydraulic valvetrain. They worked well (at least the valvetrain did) but the setup was way too cumbersome for any actual application.
I think that MAN B&W has been offering very large 2-strokes engines that use hydraulic operated exhaust valve (these things don’t have intake valves). They run at ~100 rpm speeds so the limitations of hydraulic system aren’t problematic in these.
Both M-B and BMW were investigation for solenoid valves in early 2000's. I’m pretty sure that both had working prototype engines and there were even rumors that production version would be coming. Here’s a clip from news dating 11 years back.
“Why am I talking about camless engines of all the sudden? Because we could to see it in road cars soon. The 2007 W204 Mercedes Benz C-Class is expected to be the first car from German marque to use a camless engine.
Mercedes calls it the technology KDI EVT. The KDI EVT is supercharged, with direct injection and uses an electronically controlled cam-less valvetrain. KDI EVT is likely to stand for “Kompressor Direct Injection Electronic Valve Train”. Just a wild guess. :P
I believe this could be the first implementation of camless valves in a production car, assuming no one beats them to the 2007 release date.”
However this engine was eventually forgotten and we didn’t get nothing from M-B. So I’m a bit skeptic how the new Freevalve system will succeed. I wish they would, because their solution might start the final demise of the diesel engines.