Smarter Heads: Replacing dumb iron cams with smart e-cams
Aug 30, 2019
2 minutes
Frank Markus TECHNOLOGUE
Perhaps ironically, one of the dumbest remaining parts of a modern, electronically controlled combustion engine is the cylinder head. Sure, many of them can alter valve timing and lift, but not infinitely, not very quickly, and never on a per-cylinder, per-combustion-event basis.
Great engineering minds at Lotus, Ricardo, Valeo, and others have endeavored to replace dumb steel camshafts with hit production in a Chinese Qoros vehicle within a year. Then I discovered Intelligent Valve Technology from British tech company Camcon Auto, which strikes me as simpler and therefore better.
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