DIY_EFI Digest V5 #52

[nacelp]

We got a 36 Willy's Knight next door.  Montgomery Wards after market car.
Idles dead smooth at 300 rpm.  I mean other then noise, and the fan belt
moving you'd never guess it was running.
Grumpy
  Just for EFI content, betcha I could get a lower idle with a 730, Probably
better mph then the updraft csrby too.

>
> The Knight Sleeve valve engine - used by Willies and a few others for a
few
> years - they were expensive to build. They were a good low speed design if
I
> remember correctly
> > >
> > > I believe they are no longer made because they are difficult to make.
> >
> >
> > Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 13:48:25 -0800
> > From: Ludis Langens <ludis at cruzers.com>
> > Subject: Re: Vega engine
> >
> > Ade + Lamb Chop wrote:
> > >
> > > >Also betcha that the first engines with anything resembling solenoid
> > > >operated valves are about as long lived and popular as the Vega
engines
> > > >were!
> > >
> > > Vega?? I think I have just made you point! So what is a Vega engine
> then?
> >
> > Nobody else has jumped in, so I'll answer even though the Vega is a bit
> > before my time:  The Vega engine was a SOHC 4 cylinder with an aluminum
> > block with no cylinder liners.  The aluminum had a high silicon content
> > to minimize cylinder wear.  I looked at one briefly in the wrecking yard
> > - - the head seemed to be iron!
> >
> It was. Except on the Cosworth.
> > - --
>
>
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