Originally Posted by
Ozgrade3
Ah, Bill Brogdon's opinion on the subject! It's an interesting one, and a likeable guy, but it's hard to take too seriously from someone who pissed away one of the few opportunities to design a clean-sheet aero diesel, admits that it failed because of "too much weird" and then proposes yet more weird for his "solution"
What's with his screwed up cylinder barrel design? Head gaskets are doing fine for the gazillions of diesel engines out there. And through-bolting as he proposes is heavy-heavy-heavy! Four valves-per-cylinder is completely unnecessary and arguably an impediment to good combustion, cylinder head structural efficiency and cooling.
As Bill demonstrates admirably, it's easy to design a lot of unnecessary hurdles into your diesel engine...