Ah yes the "sleeve valve" engine

Bristol's Hercules in the radial engined Halifax and Lancaster
bombers, and Centaurus in the Sea Fury and several transports. Also
the Napier Sabre in the Hawker Typhoon and early Tempest.

The Centaurus turned into a real workhorse, but the Sabre died out
quickly. The Brits seem to keep the Bristols in service in warbirds
but American's tend to replace them with R-3350s, presumably for
spares availability this side of the pond.

Gerry

On Jun 12, 3:55*pm, Torn Lawence wrote:
Tom Wait wrote:
"cmyr" wrote in message
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On Jun 11, 8:06?pm, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:40:10 -0700 (PDT), cmyr

wrote:
? Going back to some hot rodding roots,I believe V.E. was increased
in the late '60's-70's thru the use of a specially designed double
cone affair placed in the collector pipe of a tuned exhaust
system,which created a stronger vacuum effect , creating stronger
scavenging of exhaust, and to some extent , helping draw more fuel/air
mix into the cylinder.
The anti reversion cone was a dirty fix for a crappy header design.
Better than a manifold, but not as good as a proper "tuned" header.

As I recall, this system was on the cover of Hot Rod magazine, on a
high end test vehicle,and was "scientifically" researched. In this
instance the reference to a crappy header design would be wrong.

All the previous 6 or7 posters have come up with methods of increasing VE
w/o superchargers. I want to add 4 or more valves per cylinder which would
probably increase the mass of the valve train. Certainly the complexity.. I
don't see how a massive rocker arm or longer fatter pushrod could decrease
VE. Certainly a larger valve head would increase mass but would also
increase VE. A thicker valve stem would increase mass and decrease VE but I
think only marginally. I think the only way more mass would decrease VE
would be if the push rods were rubber.
Tom

The British made some WWII engines with rotating cylinder sleeves that
had in and out ports cut into them - rotary valves! No poppets. Good
performance, but burned oil and left conspicuous smoke trails, not a
good thing for a warbird to do.

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