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Old 05-24-2013, 06:49 PM   #83 (permalink)
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And air-cooled engines do not cool consistently enough to minimize emissions. Plus it is actually harder to get cooling air into all of the places you would want it in an engine. Remember, Porsche didn't go to four-valve heads until they went water-cooled. A few motorcycle engines did go with four-valve air-cooled heads, but motorcycles are not cars and the set of constraints they operate under is different.

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