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Originally Posted by Sid Squid
That Bristol is also sleeve valve, which is a complexity all of its own - great VE though.
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I hear one similar large capacity sleeve valved engine described as a swiss watch running at 2000hp due to the myriad gears to drive the sleeves
Also worth having a read about turbo-compound engines which used basically half a turbo to recover exhaust energy as motive power. Very interesting.
Also saw a really cool one where one bloke in a shed was making a 5 cylinder radial from VW top ends for a homebuilt aircraft
What next, X-16 layout quad-charged vulture-busa... would be very interesting!