Re: 16v vs. 8v

[Brandon Sommerville <brandon@caseware.com>]

At 01:33 PM 8/11/96 -0800, you wrote:
>At 03:46 PM 11/8/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Both intake valves are open with one exhaust at low rpms?  At high rpms the
>>other exhaust valve opens?
>
>
>No, you have it sorta backwards. The mechanics of the valves opening are the
>same. all 16 valves will operate the same as before. What the butterfly
>valves do are installed in front of the valve in the intake manifold side of
>it and block 4 of the 8 intake valves at low rpm and open all 8 on higher.
>It will act like a second throttle but for feathering the air flow to the
>the cylinders to allow more low end power. 
>
>
>Shawn

I'll take one last shot at this before I give up.

It opens one intake valve completely and closes the other instead of
partially opening two of them?

If this isn't it I'm gonna quietly shake my head, go out back and shoot
myself.  ;)

Brandon Sommerville

"And then I says, tell me I'm wrong! And she says, I can't baby, 'cause
you're not!" 
 - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight

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