Really cool valve technology!

[ColdAccord]

I mean I haven't watched the video yet so I'll reserve this space as my "before" opinion

but what's the beef with hybrids? I think they're just a stepping stone to full electric, which delivers instant torque, and can be obtained without giving the middle east bajillions and ruining our economy (there was drama a few months ago about how if the middle east starting demanding oil payment in euros american economy would collapse).

I look forward to a time when full electric is the way. We can get that from hydroelectric, wind, etc. Domestically too. seems foolish to keep burning a non-renewable resource that pollutes like crazy, and giving another part of the world SO much money. and I see no advantage to it

[HawaiianE30]

Mind =blown

This is seriously going to change the internal combustion engines in the future, wicked cool idea

Yeah holy shit.. I was like this couldn't possibly get any better than the square curve and then he casually mentioned it would do away with the timing belt... geeze talk about unleashing more power :firehop:

[Stephen]

Developed in the 80's... Now days F1 uses compressed nitrogen in place of metal springs. Cam shafts are still used

I was actually responding to E30SPDFRK when your post popped up :p

[Hick]

^ I was under the impression F1 still uses camshaft, but with pneumatic valve springs.

Developed in the 80's... Now days F1 uses compressed nitrogen in place of metal springs. Cam shafts are still used

[VinniE30]

Wow i'm surprised car companies aren't already doing this, i'm sure they have thought of it before. There are so many huge improvements with this valve actuating design and on top of it all it's actually more simple than the camshaft based design it would replace. This is one of the biggest improvements to the internal combustion engine ever IMO, more significant than the change from 2 valves per cylinder to 4.

[Exodus_2pt0]

I remember reading about solenoid activated valves on the Supercharged ecotec lsj years ago. They were talking about it on the Cobalt SS.

Not quite the same thing, but the same end result.

[Jparkr]

Renault developed a cam-less valve system for their turbo V6 F1 motors back in the 80's.

This is not such a new technology, but good to see it applied to road going cars.

I was gonna say, I thought that was how the F1 engines worked for quite some time now.

[Stephen]

^ I was under the impression F1 still uses camshaft, but with pneumatic valve springs.

[Hick]

Renault developed a cam-less valve system for their turbo V6 F1 motors back in the 80's.

This is not such a new technology, but good to see it applied to road going cars.

[E30SPDFRK]

A version of this has been used on F1 engines for years now. It is an awesome technology though.

[Stephen]

Didn't ford prototype some sort of cam-less valve actuated a while back and scrap the project?

Cool, especially if they can make it feasible

[lowsodium]

How much cooler would it have been if he used a e30?

Wonder what the downsides are?

[e30slidewayz]

Wow, awesome. Extremely interesting... retro fit kits for the M20 anyone?

[ZekeTheSneak]

Just think, Theoretically you could have perfect timing and air/fuel throughout the entire power band. That can make some serious power and serious gas mileage. I've been waiting for this.

[evandael]

Wow, newfound respect for the Koeniggsegg brand/engineers.