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Originally Posted by Red Bread
Agreed, it's mostly semantics. I don't really care, and suppose if you removed them, it would just be pushrods that became the next target.
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Exactly, despite how light the engine is, how low it's CG is, how much tq it develops with the higher displacement to weight ratio it has, etc. Efficiency requirements may have have signed it's eventual death certificate, but there are a bunch of advantages to the design and good reasons why it's used.