Crazy Motor Idea That Has Dodge Written All Over It

Submitted 3 years ago

So. Take a regular pushrod engine, now add a second cam and move the first one up one side of the valley a bit, now add 2 more valves and narrow the rockers for the originals, now put a third pushrod, and a Y-shaped rocker between the 2 original rockers, now time the originals as both intakes and the new valves as exhaust. With me so far? This is your track only crate 4v pushrod. Now take that motor, put a hydraulic clutch on each cam and use collapsible lifters on every cylinder. Now, you can deactivate the sides alternating, no spinning cam and collapsed lifters means you have an I4 in eco mode, but it's a 4v pushrod I4, that, in the neighborhood of a 6.0l full engine displacement, does as much with just 3.0 liters as ford can do with 5. I'm a ford guy, but if you do this, and I know you're crazy enough (hell if you want I can draw up a rough CAD model to look at) you're gonna pound both ford and chevy into the dust. This could make the hellephant look like a toy if done right. Now coin a new term, DCIB or TCIB (dual cam in block or twin cam in block) combine the Low end of a pushrod with the high end of a DOHC, and you get a monster that just makes more power the higher you rev it, and doesn't sacrifice down low. Best part? Extra parts list includes: 16 new valves and springs, 8 new special rockers, 8 new pushrod, 1 new cam. Obviously new heads and block, but once there's a casting that's easy. Plus you could even trick things where you only open one intake valve per cylinder in a hyper eco mode, less fuel plus less air equals less emissions, but have that stonewalled behind an eco mode that you mostly use for emissions testing and for extremely frugal people.