Variable Cam Stuff

[Sandy]

Saw the idea in the 60's hot rod mags where some gizmo was attached to the
timing gear of the cam and it did some magical adjustmet by letting the
assembly slip and slide to alter the cam timing. Never saw one in action or
knew if they really worked, the idea was good.

Sandy

At 10:19 AM 6/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 goflo at pacbell.net wrote:
>
>> frederic.breitwieser wrote:
>> 
>> > The "ultimate" solution, one that I and a friend applied for a patent on
>> > (expensive process, but worth it), is to vary the timing relationship
of the
>> > Cam/Crank across the RPM band.  By adjusting the cam for low-RPM the
engine
>
>[snip]
>
>I hate to burst your bubble but these schemes have already been
>implemented in a ton of everyday applications.
>
>Add to the list below:
>-Nissan VVT-i
>-Porsche's VarioCam
>-...and of course Honda's VTEC.
>
>Some of these shcemes (Nissan's VVT and Honda's VTEC) switch to a
>(sometime two or more) completely different cam profiles.
>
>...so since you guys already went out and patented your idea, can you
>share some the details with us?
>
>