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Straight-3
Most straight-3 engines employ a crank angle of 120° and are thus rotationally balanced; however, ...-2]]. The inner cylinder is offset 180° from the outer cylinders. In these engines cylinder 1 fires, 180° later cylinder 2 fires, and then 180° later cylind

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Cagiva Elefant
...produced with motors to two times, while the others all with twin-cylinder engines to four times. ...cal to that one of Elefant 125, in fact the two models only differ for the piston displacement, for this came only produced from 1984 to 1986.

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Single cylinder engine
Compared to multi-cylinder engines, single cylinder engines have several advantages, primarily their simple and economical construction ...hese vehicles allowed the first mass-motorisation in many countries. Most engines used in small portable appliances, such as chainsaws, generators and domest

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Flat engine
...do not share crank pins in this way, and [[flat engine#180° V-engines|180° engines]] which do. ...nter]] simultaneously. Boxer engines should not be confused with [[opposed piston engine]]s, which use a completely different concept.

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Parasitic loss
== Parasitic loss in internal combustion engines == ...ything including the driveline causes parasitic loss. Bearings, oil pumps, piston rings, valve springs, flywheels, transmissions, driveshafts, differentials,

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Piston ring
[[Image:Piston rings.jpg|thumb|250px|Spring-loaded piston rings.]] ...gs mounted on a 47mm [[two-stroke cycle]] [[Scooter (motorcycle)|scooter]] piston.]]

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Reciprocating engine
...'' <br>Components of a typical, [[four stroke cycle]], internal combustion piston engine. <br> '''P''' - [[Piston]]<br>

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Flathead engine
...at has the [[poppet valve|valves]] placed in the engine block beside the [[piston]], instead of in the [[cylinder head]], as in an overhead valve or [[OHV]] ...t's said that such an engine has poorer "breathing". In the early days all engines had poor combustion anyway, so this was a minor concern given the benefits

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W engine
The major advantage of these engines is packaging, that is, they contain high numbers of cylinders but are relat There are two major advantages of these engines over the more traditional [[straight-4]] or [[V4 engine]]s. The first is th

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V engine
[[Image:L V VR6 engines.png|thumb|200px|right|Three types of engine: a — straight engine, b& ...configuration|configuration]] for an [[internal combustion engine]]. The [[piston]]s are aligned so that they appear to be in a V when viewed along the line

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Pushrod
...'', also called '''pushrod engine''' or '''I-head engine''' is a type of [[piston engine]] that places the [[camshaft]] in the [[cylinder block]] (usually be ...es. [[General Motors]] is the world's largest pushrod engine producer with engines such as the [[Buick V6 engine#L32 Supercharged|3800 Series III]] [[Supercha

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Two stroke
...or every engine revolution, instead of every second revolution. Two stroke engines can be arranged to start and run in either direction. Two-stroke engines are used most among the smallest and largest reciprocating powerplants, but

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Straight engine
...fewer [[cylinder head|cylinder heads]] and [[camshaft|camshafts]]. Inline engines are also much smaller in volume than designs like the [[radial engine|radia ...''GM Atlas engine'' family includes straight-4, straight-5, and straight-6 engines.

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Four-stroke
...our ''strokes'', or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a [[piston]] inside a [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]: ...is at its topmost point. On the first downward stroke (''intake'') of the piston, a mixture of [[fuel]] and [[air]] is drawn into the cylinder through the i

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Four-stroke cycle
...our ''strokes'', or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a [[piston]] inside a [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]: ...is at its topmost point. On the first downward stroke (''intake'') of the piston, a mixture of [[fuel]] and [[air]] is drawn into the cylinder through the i

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Jake brake
...ed air in the cylinder preventing it from returning its energy back to the piston and accordingly, the vehicle. ...also muffle the sound of the compression release engine brake. Also, some engines use a butterfly valve in the exhaust and/or stator travel beyond the normal

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Delta engine
...& Son]], and the locomotives produced by [[English Electric]] using these engines, including their [[British Rail DP1|demonstrator locomotive named ''DELTIC' ...ft. Hitherto in the [[Royal Navy]], such boats had been driven by gasoline engines but this fuel is obviously highly flammable and made them very vulnerable t

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W12
...cylinders though none have ever gone into production. All production W12 engines to date (April, 2005) use four banks of three cylinders (two narrow-angle [ ...swagen Group currently produces W12s, based on two of its narrow-angle VR6 engines. The narrow angle of each set of cylinders allows just two camshafts to dr

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Four stroke cycle
...our ''strokes'', or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a [[piston]] inside a [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]: ...s at its uppermost point. On the first downward stroke (''intake'') of the piston, a mixture of fuel and air is drawn into the cylinder through the intake (i

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