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Old 12-25-2013, 10:33 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Effective cylinder deactivation needs to disallow any mass flow at all through the combustion chamber. This means that both intake and exhaust valves remain disabled for the deactivated cylinders. Otherwise, you're just adding more make-work for the engine.
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