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• V8
  The V8 is a very common configuration for large [[automobile]] engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 4 litres in displacement and in automobile use have go ...ing League|IRL]], [[ChampCar]] and [[NASCAR]]. [[Formula One]] will use V8 engines for the 2006 season onwards.
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• Internal-combustion engine
  ...ber, which are permitted to expand. The expanding gases are used to move a piston, turbine blades, rotor, or the engine itself. ...ons are called oil engines. However, gasoline engines are often called gas engines for short. The only limitations are that the fuel must be easily transporta
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• Formula One engines
  ...most internal combustion engines. For comparison, the naturally-aspirated piston engine production car with the [[List of automotive superlatives#Most speci ...d, up to 20,000 revolutions per minute (RPM). This contrasts with road car engines of a similar size which operate safely at typically less than 7,000 rpm. Ho
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• Molaroni
  ...was a 300 cc two-stroke with a vertical single cylinder. The cylinder and piston were rod iron and on the steel to nickel head, the roller bearings and cran ...were called the ''C'', ''CS'', ''D'' and ''DS''. The first two had 300 cc engines, while the ''D'' and the ''DS'' had a 344 cc. At the end of 1925, it was an
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• Ducati Monster
  ...Ducati motorcycles are best-known for their L-twin [[Desmodromic valve]] engines (also known as a '''90° [[V-Twin]]''') and tubular steel trellis chassis, ...hat year included semi-floating front [[disc brakes]] with [[Brembo]] four-piston calipers, lighter Brembo wheels as well as 43 mm Showa inverted forks. 2002
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• GM High Feature engine
  ...r '''HFV6''') engine family of modern [[DOHC]] [[V6]]s. This new family of engines was introduced in [[2004]] with the [[Cadillac CTS]]. [[Holden]] sells the ...and exhaust valves and electronic throttle control. Other features include piston oil-jet capability, forged crankshaft and connecting rods, [[VLIM|variable
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• Ralph DePalma
  ...g for nearly 196 of the 200 laps, his [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]] cracked a piston and only 2 laps remaining, he and his mechanic had to push the car across t ...lished the DePalma Manufacturing Company in Detroit to build race cars and engines for automobiles and aircraft.
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• VR6 engine
  ...of the Lancia Fulvia staggered-four developed in the late 1950s. Staggered engines are an amenable further development with both uneven cylinder numbers and w ...r to the operation of a [[SOHC]] V6 engine. However, later (24 valve) VR6 engines use two camshafts, the right bank camshaft operates the right bank exhaust
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• Supercharger
  *Piston ...e first person to patent a forced-induction system for internal combustion engines. His first superchargers were based on a twin-rotor air-pump design first p
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• Engine displacement
  ...]es. In a [[piston engine]], this is the volume that is ''swept'' as the [[piston]]s are moved from ''[[top dead centre]]'' to ''bottom dead centre''. ==Standard engines==
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• Internal combustion engine
  ...arate working fluid, which then in turn does work, for example by moving a piston. ...s, most [[rocket]]s and many [[gas turbine]]s are also internal combustion engines.
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• Engine Control Unit
  ...[[Engine knocking|knock]], a condition which is potentially destructive to engines, and "judges" it to be the result of the ignition timing being too early in ...k" requirement of the moment. In this case the knock/ping results from the piston not being able to move downward as fast as the flame front is expanding.
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• Vacuum brake
  * a brake cylinder on each vehicle containing a piston, connected by rigging to the brake shoes on the vehicle; and ...own in red; it is connected at the bottom to the brake rigging, and if the piston is pulled up, the brakes are applied.
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• Ferrari 575M Maranello
  |Engines:||5.7 L [[V12]] |Engines:||540 hp 5.7 L [[V12]]
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• Diesel engine
  ==How diesel engines work== ...to heat up rapidly, which increases its pressure, which in turn forces the piston downwards. The [[connecting rod]] transmits this motion to the [[crankshaf
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• Spark plug
  ...the fuel/air mixture until it spontaneously ignites. Compression-ignition engines may use [[glow plug]]s to improve cold start characteristics. ...], (I) Intake camshaft, (S) Spark plug, (V) [[poppet valve|Valves]], (P) [[Piston]], (R) [[Connecting rod]], (C) [[Crankshaft]], (W) Water jacket for coolant
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• Ignition system
  ...cient to ignite the fuel spontaneously. All conventional petrol (gasoline) engines, by contrast, require an ignition system. The ignition system is usually sw The earliest petrol engines used a very crude ignition system. This often took the form of a copper or
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• Partenavia
  P.68B - Two 150kW (200hp) Lycoming IO360A1B fuel injected flat four piston engines driving two blade constant speed propellers. P.68TC - Two 155kW (210hp) tur
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...ter keys to prevent over-rotation, as well as shock brackets that keep the piston travel in the stock position. ...d all round independent torsion bar suspension, along with air cooled rear engines. Also in the 1930s, prototypes of the first [[Volkswagen Beetle]] incorpora
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• NCR
  ...the 70s Ducati didn’t directly take part in the competitions and therefore engines and chassis were given to NCR to work on. They were made lighter, shinier, | FRONT BRAKE || 2 x 300 mm Braking WAVE discs, 4-piston 2-pad Brembo SBK radial caliper from billet
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