Interesting read on the N52 engines

gas-can · 12-14-2012, 10:57 AM

Found this interesting article on the n52 engine and some of the reasons for the design choices the engineers made.

Some cool info in there, with my favourite being the hollow camshaft being expanded by water at 58000!! psi.

Amazing what modern engineering and technology can do!

http://www.mwerks.com/artman/publish...icle_960.shtml

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spidertri · 12-23-2012, 09:51 AM

Cool article, thanks for posting it.

NYZ4 · 01-04-2013, 07:45 PM

^WHS. Thanks!

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