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Ali Al-Chalabi · #11 04-26-2005, 02:14 PM

This has been looked into, but I think would be really impractical with a 14V system. In my opinion, one of the factors holding back this technology is the low voltage of the standard car electrical system. Otherwise, it will take a lot of Amps at 14V to power what would have to be some rather powerful solenoids. They could either up the Voltage of the entire system or make a seperate higher volatage system for the valve train. Raising the voltage of the entire system would lead to some serious compatibility problems with the other consumers in the system, so this method may be impractical.