Re: COMP: Breeding a Better Engine

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2000 - 11:34:30 MDT


GBurch1@aol.com wrote:

> GBurch1@aol.com wrote: For years, people "in the know" have
> assumed that overhead cam engines are inherently superior. However, when
> Mercedes decided to get back into the racing engine business, they surprised
> the world by making their Indy-winning machines "old-fashioned" pushrod V8s!

WOW coooool! Have you a URL? I wouldnt have imagined such a thing.
How do they get the revs with all that reciprocating mass of a pushrod,
a rocker arm etc? spike



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