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Originally Posted by fedezyl
Well, just one question, why is it then, that most high performance car manufacturers use OHC instead of pushrods, as well as formula one and basically most racing engines? oh yeah....it must be that they are dumb and spend most of their R&D money buying marihuana and smoking it in big bongs together....
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The reason they pursue this avenue is two fold:
First, engineers like to try new stuff - just to see what can be done - with no regard for cost or complexity.
Secondly, the manufacturers are able to sell their products for the outrageous prices they need to recoupe the costs. This limits access to these technological "marvels" to an elite few.
Witness the fact that econ-car engines are multi-valve OHC designs - but unable to reach the peak horsepower numbers needed as they are build on a budget.
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Originally Posted by fedezyl
As far as you RC45, I do respect you as a person, but frankly I get somewhat tired of your post, it seems everytime someone says something that you don't agree with you just load up your flame thrower and burn whoever is in front of you, you just don't seem to be able to communicate with people, besides having some sort of fanatical behaviour on anything regarding your point of view, the same goes to Graywolf624 to a lesser extent.
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Nope - I just felt dumber after reading that tripe.
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Originally Posted by fedezyl
In any case, back to the argument about the Corvette, none of us can really say wich design is best or worse since we are not engineers and frankly we don't know crap about them other than what we read on the internet and whatever books we read.
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That is another stupid statement.
This is like saying because we are not doctors human health is total mystery and what ever doctors say is like the Word of God...
Not being an engineer actually allows you as a consumer to fairly evaluate the crap they build and tell them how it really is.
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Originally Posted by fedezyl
But, and this is a BIG but, there are some facts that we cannot ignore and those are that most manufacturers use OHC for a reason, most try to squeeze out as much power from a given engine volume as they can (for sports car's engines)
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With unlimited budgets and products absurdly over priced to recoup costs - sure it's the way to go.
The opposite is of course that all the OHC econo-engines are just that - cheap econo-engines.
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Originally Posted by fedezyl
and as st-anger said, wich I think is the only individual here in this forum with enough knowledge and experience to say that a Porsche was and is WAAY better than a Corvette.
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Based on what? Because he works for Porsche?
Being that the Corvette is the longest running sinlge car model in history - I would say that the Corvette enthusiasts the world over would disagree.