Sneak Peek from LPE

[grahambehan]

Originally Posted by XfireZ51

Graham,

Its interesting to note the approach GM and Ford took with similar motors at nearly the same time. I'm referring to the LT-5 v Yamaha SHO. The SHO had a "split" plenum approach and the "bundle of snakes" runners for low and high rpm operation. Was that something Lotus/Chevy had looked into?
Hope you don't mind the queries.

Not really, mainly due to packaging constraints, instead we had a swirl primary port with the secondary masked by the port throttle. The new engine would rely on cam profile switching to modify the torque curve.

Graham.

P.S. It's alive