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Interesting idea, very noisy. Would have liked to have seen/heard the demo engine running.
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petey
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Shonky
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Certainly is interesting technology, one that I would like to see perfected and put into mass production. I wouldn't be too concerned about noise too much petey, I have no doubt that can be overcome, take today's diesel engines compared to a diesel engine from 10-15 years ago, back then they were truck engines stuck into 4 wheel drives, now the NVH levels are low enough to stick in an everyday shopping cart.
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Exar Kun
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Re: Air valves
Interesting. F1 has used pneumatic valves for a really long time which do away with valve springs in place of pressurized chambers but they still use cams as far as i know. It makes sense to have a system that is essentially infinitely variable so I assume it was either banned in F1 or technical issues stopped it from happening.
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