One of the younger employees made a statement the other day about cylinder head valve angle and how it relates to timming.He said the steaper the valve angle i.e. 23' vs a 11' valve angle you have to run more timming in the 23' head.
It got me to thinking that once the intake valve was closed the combustion space doesn't know or care what the valve angle is.
timming is more related to chamber size and efficiency of the chamber than the valve angle.
Am I wrong???
valve angle vs timming
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Re: valve angle vs timming
Valve included angle has no correlation to ignition timing. Required ignition timing is primarily related to combustion chamber size and shape, although swirl and tumble come into the picture too. And exhaust scavenging.
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Re: valve angle vs timming
Many factors ...jed wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:17 pm One of the younger employees made a statement the other day about cylinder head valve angle and how it relates to timming.He said the steaper the valve angle i.e. 23' vs a 11' valve angle you have to run more timming in the 23' head.
It got me to thinking that once the intake valve was closed the combustion space doesn't know or care what the valve angle is.
timming is more related to chamber size and efficiency of the chamber than the valve angle.
Am I wrong???
Shape of the combustion chamber
Diameter of the combustion chamber
combustion chamber turbulence
compression ratio
piston dome topography
quench area & distance
spark plug location
and I am sure there are some other factors
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Re: valve angle vs timming
The shallower valve angle allows changes to the chamber size and shape which is what affects things.
Re: valve angle vs timming
It seems that we might also add rod length or at least rod ratio.Walter R. Malik wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 3:17 pmMany factors ...jed wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:17 pm One of the younger employees made a statement the other day about cylinder head valve angle and how it relates to timming.He said the steaper the valve angle i.e. 23' vs a 11' valve angle you have to run more timming in the 23' head.
It got me to thinking that once the intake valve was closed the combustion space doesn't know or care what the valve angle is.
timming is more related to chamber size and efficiency of the chamber than the valve angle.
Am I wrong???
Shape of the combustion chamber
Diameter of the combustion chamber
combustion chamber turbulence
compression ratio
piston dome topography
quench area & distance
spark plug location
and I am sure there are some other factors
Re: valve angle vs timming
spark plug location in the chamber has more effect than valve angle on timing.
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Re: valve angle vs timming
His comment/ statement assumes possibly wrongly that with any motor as the valve head becomes more parallel to the Pistons the chamber becomes a more burn efficient shape.
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