[Matra et Alpine]

[quote=Slicks]The weight issure has been proven, OHC(especially DOHC) is heavier than OHV. Think about it, you have 1-3 more cams,[/QQUOTE]
FFS, will you guys get out of your tiny minds and READ WHAT IS WRITTEN.
I had already said if it was caopmring with all other things equal.

****ING RETARDS !!!!!!!!!!

the chain to drive those cams, and extra material in the heads to fin those cams. Pushrods(the acutal pushrods, not the engine) and rockers dont weight enough to make a substantial difference in weight when comparing the engines. Thats a good reason why the all aluminum DOHC northstar weighs more than the all aluminum LS1 (and is bigger too).

And if you'd actually bothered to read what was written it was NOT to comapre singel cam with 4 cams.

So the extra bits. PLEASE go back to where we went through this before. THERE ARE MORE COMPONENTS in OHV drivetrain that are movign up and down - that's the BAD kind of mocement in an engine.

If you think otherwise, then list all the components IN ORDER and their materials for each engien - lets take single OHV and single OHC so we're comparing liek with like as was suggested. Beacuse if it goes the multiple cams route then CLAERLY there's a weight advantage dickhead That's like sayign an I4 is lighter than a V16 because it has less piston - you dont' ****ing say bozzo

Remember this picture? Same displcement, about same block size...

Take the V configuration, with OHC you have 2 camshafts intstead of one, that alone is already more complex, then make it DOHC, you have 2 more cams now...
Sure, its not that much more complex but it still is more complex.

We'd covered the like for like - getting bored with numpties now

So go over how it is more complex with a single cam ?
it's actually less complex with single OHC in a V8 if you jsut go by component count. I think you dont' know very much about OHC engines. Try stripping each down. As said already - and I see it was ****ing ignored by the illiterate AGAIN - you take an in-block cam out of an engine and do the same with an OHC. It's a FRACTION of the work and rebuild necessary on the later. IF you had ever actually worked on an engine you'd know that.

****ING RETARDS ON UCP ARE GETTING ON MY ****ING GOAT AND I WANT TO SLAP THEM.

( sorry, my GWB-moment has passed )