Re: American race cars (formerly - OT: new car advice)

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Darrin Chandler
Date:  
To: Lyndon Tiu, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: American race cars (formerly - OT: new car advice)
Lyndon Tiu wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:05:10 -0700 wrote:
>
>
>>Hmm.
>>
>>Did you know that overhead cams are an OLDER technology than pushrods?
>>
>>
>
>Really?
>
>I wonder why most cars today use overhead cams?
>
>--
>Lyndon Tiu
>
>

This happens a lot. Someone thinks of a nifty technology, but it doesn't
work all that well for one reason or another. Decades later, advances in
materials, manufacturing, or engineering make an old idea feasible.
Continuously variable transmissions and other things are old ideas that
are beginning to be dusted off and used again.

--
Darrin Chandler

http://www.stilyagin.com/

---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss