Full Speed Camshaft, How it Works!
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Channel: ChargerMiles007 · 2012 · Autos & Vehicles
The details of how the full crankshaft speed camshaft works, are shown here. A friend made this set-up for me 10 years ago, and it worked well. I brought it back out, since it provides much better air metering for the compressed air engine. Now the inlet air cuts off when the piston is about 1/4 of the way down the bore. Before, with the regular 1/2 speed camshaft, the inlet air was coming in until the piston was almost at the bottom of the stroke, which is wasteful, as you get hardly any expansion.
