hi compressions: wasDIY_EFI Digest V1 #258

[SRavet at bangate.compaq.com]

Daniel Ridge <newt at cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov> Wrote:
| Todd's right about chamber shape and flame proopgation. Multivalves are a
| hack around the hard limits that geometry places on things -- we're
| constrained to have circular valves, it's tough to use real estate well
| when you are nesting circles(valves) in circles(cylinder(head)s). The
| multivalve people didn't want multivales -- they really wanted 
rectangular
| valves :).

This might be a dumb question, but why not non-circular valves?  I guess 
they wouldn't be able to spin.  Is that a problem?  I can see corners being 
bad, but what about a nice oval shape?

--steve

Steve Ravet
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