SO here is what I been thinking. You know on that project we are going to do when we retire. I am thinking we should not try and eliminate reciprocating valves right away. That will make things too complicated to get our engine program going. We could be dinking with that part of it for decades. So I think we can go ahead with valves, but we are going to need to get some made out of Inconel 601. That way we can get them real light which means we can use weaker rate springs and we won't have to have high actuation forces. I am afraid we will have to have cast iron heads though, because the aluminum will carry off too much heat.
I have been keeping an eye on Honda and I think it will still take them another twenty years or so and Ferrari is wandering in the wilderness. We still have a good chance of showing them up even getting our late start. But if we dink around too much going too radical right away, we can wind up looking just as bad as they are right now. I really think we will beat them to the punch.
