Camshaft Books

[Stan Weiss]

If anyone has some interest in this subject and is looking for some reading material.

http://speedtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t...

Stan

[stevieturbo]

Stan Weiss said:

If anyone has some interest in this subject and is looking for some reading material.

http://speedtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t...

Stan

On a similar vein....or maybe not.

There are various dyno sim softwares out there, and these will allow the user to enter various camshaft data, and this will yield different results.

Obviously the engine data needs to be good also before any sensible data out can be achieved.

But how good are those types of simulators ?

Good books are worth reading, but would software testing maybe offer the buyer better insight ?

[Pumaracing]

It was admittedly some years ago but the last time I tried dyno simulator type software it was fairly close to useless. I could input accurate flow numbers from my flowbench and measured cam profiles and get nowhere near what the engines actually produced. Maybe they've improved a bit since then but I suspect that only in OE manufacturer and similar big budget labs with CFD and big computer power are people even vaguely close to understanding how engines really work.

Look at F1 in particular. Money almost no object but the engine developers still end up with massively different power outputs. Mercedes has dominated the power plants for 2 years now. If it was as simple as tinkering with a $30 off the shelf software program I think someone might have realised by now.