CYLINDER HEAD ARRANGEMENT FOR VARIABLE VALVE ACTUATION ROCKER ARM ASSEMBLIES

A cylinder head assembly is described for an engine having a plurality of adjacent cylinders, with a left-end cylinder on a far left side of the engine and a right-end cylinder on a far right side of the engine.The cylinder head assembly comprises:at least one overhead camshaft passing over the left...

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Hauptverfasser: GENISE, David Gerard, RADULESCU, Andrei D
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Zusammenfassung:A cylinder head assembly is described for an engine having a plurality of adjacent cylinders, with a left-end cylinder on a far left side of the engine and a right-end cylinder on a far right side of the engine.The cylinder head assembly comprises:at least one overhead camshaft passing over the left-end cylinder;an end support on the far left of the engine supporting a first end of the at least one camshaft; anda cam tower of a left middle cylinder of the plurality of adjacent cylinders for supporting the at least one overhead camshaft;wherein a portion of the at least one overhead camshaft extending over the left-end cylinder is supported by the left-end support and the cam tower of the left middle cylinder, thereby providing additional clearance for installation of oversized rocker arm assemblies on the left-end cylinder, each of the oversized rocker assemblies configured to engage a plurality of lobes of the at least one overhead camshaft.