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Sure, if money is not an issue, you can do a lot better. Look at, say, WWII airplane engines. They had 4 sodium cooled valves per cylinders, overhead camshafts
by jabl 7y ago
Sure, if money is not an issue, you can do a lot better.
Look at, say, WWII airplane engines. They had 4 sodium cooled valves per cylinders, overhead camshafts, power density around 50 kW/L, pretty darn good bsfc, all this decades before anything like that appeared in civilian cars.
- erfgefesa 7y agoWell that's the point. Engineering is as much about compromise as it is about anything else.