Free Valve (Camless) engine technology

[StevieC]

 

[Merkava_4]

Fantastic! Variable cam timing will be obsolete soon! I hate variable cam timing and direct injection.

 

[Cujet]

Neat stuff. I like the technology and I wish them complete success. I suspect his quoted HP numbers are on the extreme low end of what's possible.

 

[Artem]

I can see 4 bangers, V6's, V8's etc getting quite small without the head and all too end components. The future looks awesome.

 

[555]

This is the sort of thing that F1 teams have been experimenting, building and lobbying for the FIA to permit for years.

 

[StevieC]

I would have thought that with Pneumatic valves in racing for a long time we would have had that in daily drivers but it looks like this will be the first.

 

[SilverFusion2010]

I want to see it run. My geek side is very happy

 

[Popsy]

Isn’t the Fiat twin multiair using a system like that?

 

[OneEyeJack]

I like the idea of being able to start the engine without a starter.

Once this technology gets tried, tested and proven on really expensive cars it will fall through to ordinary cars pretty quickly.

Several universities and a few hobby geeks are working with single cylinder engines using this stuff and I'd be willing to bet that it's happening at places like Cosworth, Porsche, and McLaren.