Sorry to hear that Dude. What's the plan, you coming back to Blighty for a bit?

Happy Birthday Dude

I think this is game changing.

If you added some sort of variable compression, you could have an engine that could run on everything from natural gas to cooking oil. And everything in between.

Possibly even swapping between 2 and 4 stroke. Although that would make the exhaust complicated.

Not to mention infinitely variable valve timing and cylinder control. It could go from a 2 cylinder 100mpg engine to a 4 cylinder 250 bhp Motogp engine at the flick of the wrist.

D41 wrote:I can see it in some sort of boutique application....but not much more than that....like the cars, I guess. The rotary engine springs to mind.

30% smaller, much simpler and potentially cheaper to mass produce. Not to mention much easier to maintain. Yep, that's boutique.

Oh god yes!

No idea, but the possibilities for this are endless and it's ridiculously simple.

Plus if they used pneumatics springs like Motogp and F1 they could have an engine that idles on one cylinder, has a bottom end of a V twin and spins up up 20K!

When you think about it like this why in the world would use a cams? Screaming 600 with almost litre bike bottom end anyone?

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I'll go back tonight and see what I can do

No idea on the drivers, I didn't stop as there was police and recovery lorries at the scene. Vid here of the artic from someone that drove past earlier. [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l59IVjQARTo[/video] It's not really surprising as it's near Flash, the highest village in the UK. Think it's...

I put some gaffer tape on as a temporary measure, but it pulled the paint off when I removed it!

Drove over the Buxton/Leek road last night and found three lorries overturned. One of them was an artic!

Ordered some of these for it

I've been ill for 3 weeks, just can't shake it

Feel for you Dude, housing chains are up there with bereavement and divorce when it comes to stress!

It's more to do with the length of the exhaust on all engines than the actual back pressure. One of the reasons tuners tend not to recommend shorty cans.

LOL Toilet hugging!

Nothing a day out in the Peaks wouldn't sort Itchy!