Did anyone read it!?! They are going to be removing the Trottle bodies from BMW's. Apparently the valves/cams are so adjustable that it opens valves to the peddle pressure instead of the butterfly in the trottle body!?! Um, can you say Kiss me rear smog!?!

 

I read a little bit about it in a previous C&D issue...pretty cool stuff.

 

plus BMW isn't far away from putting a non-mechanical valvetrain into production... variable valvetrain compliments of solenoids... yum!

 

With all the extra rocker arms and extra weight, i highly doubt that design will ever rev pass 6000rpm. prodution engines at least. Plus that hydraulic lifter is a big no with high rpms. i could be wrong.

 

I don't know, but at the same time BMW is only releasing it in the 7 series for now and you know those engines don't need to go over 6K to produce power.