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Old 01-21-2004, 09:28 PM   #26
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Re: Re: Re: Pushrod vs. SOHC vs. DOHC

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Originally Posted by SaabJohan
Use the correct terms instead, it avoids misunderstanding. Over Head Valve refers to nothing more than that the valves are placed in the cylinder head, which is usually the case for both push rod and OHC.
I'm not going to jump on any bandwagon here as you're right, I just always viewed it as the position of the cams relative to the valves. OHC having the cams over them or OHV with the cams under, just always made sense to me, but like I said i'm not getting into another capslock match on here.
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