dont wast any gas on them ricers ,just tell em to blow it outta their fartpipe :)

They need to learn about cars before talking about them

more than that they need to learn about the one thing they CANT stop talking about...and that is the VTEC engine. Now dont get me wrong....im actually impressed by the vtec...i think its a very creative idea to get that type of raw power out of such a small engine. However, they throw this word around so loosley and an extrremely small percentage of them have even the slightest clue of what it stands for, what it does, and how it works:-x

and its real sad when i have to try and explain it to them...but i dont bother because they know everything

....and it's not like it (vtec) was there idea anyway. Various companies have been messing with it since the very early 80's.

- Justin

AKA VVT

MIVEC as well. And Fiat was the first to develope a variable valve timign system ion the 60's. its on Wikipedia. GM tried to do it before Honda as well in 75, but had problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_valve_timing

I may have mentioned this somewhere else on this forum but the word on the grapevine is that GM plans to have a VVT system on the next generation of LSX engines using dual through-block cams, one over the other.

I cant wait til they develop electric valves...then the skys the limit!

They should do what F1 cars do, not run on springs at all. they run on pneumatic valves, their pushed by computer controlled hydrualics cause springs couldnt take 18-20,000RPM's. Theres a few engines out there that dont have cams at all, the valves open when the computer says its time!!

The only problem with those is what happens when the computer has a glitch? ...better hope it's not an interference motor!

- Justin

:hitfan: something like that will happen haha

I think that was a rhetorical question...

and it got a light-hearted answer.. it's not like he went through the series of events which would happen if it did

well im glad you understood haha