re: pushrods

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

At 12:18 AM 2/14/03, Joe Elliott wrote:
>At 5:20 AM +0000 2/14/03, alfa-digest wrote:
>>engineers are more free to design combustion chamber shape.
>
>I'm going to have to disagree with that.  When somebody comes out
>with a 4-valve pushrod hemi, you might have a point, but it hasn't
>happened yet.

No, one has NOT been PRODUCED yet, but take a peek at the one Buick had
designed in the EARLY 1950's, yet !!!

Because of bean counters, the heads got redesigned, and what would have
been a row of eight intakes on each head became both the intakes and
exhausts on the "nail head".

Greg
>
>Joe Elliott
>'82 GTV6 <--I wish it had more cams and fewer pushrods
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