Valves per cylinder makes one's engine more powerful or less powerful. A engine that has 2 valves per cylinder is better that a engine that has only one.
Four stroke engines must have at least 2 valves: one exhaust and one intake. Most modern engines are going to 4 valves per cylinder to allow the intake and exhaust strokes to be more efficient.
It is exactly what it says. The number of valves the engine has per cylinder. If you have 16 valves on an 8 cylinder engine, you have 2 valves per cylinder.
3 valves per cylinder ( according to the owners manual )
An 8V engines, is a 4 cylinder engine with two valves per cylinder. A 16V engine has 4 valves per cylinder. More valves is like having bigger lungs, it will make more horsepower out of the same size engine.
There would be two valves per cylinder ! The data is in your question.
Depends on engine size. Typically two valves per cylinder. One intake and one exhaust. Some higher performance applications can have four valves per cylinder.
3 valves per engine cylinder , 24 valves total
( 2 valves ) per engine cylinder , total of ( 16 valves )
5 per cylinder
16V means the total valves in the engine. So the car in question propably has 4 cylinders and 4 valves per cylinder there for 16v More valves gives more power but higher fuel consuption...
In the Ford F-150 : 1997 to 2003 ( 2 valves per cylinder ) 2004 and newer ( 3 valves per cylinder ) for the 5.4 L - 3V engine