Carryfast:
cav551:
Exactly, you can have the greatest leverage advantage possible, but if you cannot get the air in and out again it is going to be a lemon. Which is exactly what happened with the type HOE7 Crossley diesel engine. The thing was strangled and asthmatic. IIRC when Crossley Motors were taken over by AEC the parent company’s engineers set to work on sorting out the breathing problems. However the engine like its predecessors already had a bad reputation and Crossley chassis were very soon powered by AEC engines.That would depend on the erroneous assumption that leverage and decent VE are mutually exclusive.Which would contradict just about all truck engine development to date.Especially when we bolt a turbocharger to it.
Those are your words not mine. Why do you think that there was an issue with ■■■■■■■ having patented ‘the best bore/stroke ratios’, if the the two are not related? Remind us all please what do motor racing governing bodies do when they want to restrict the formula’s engine output?