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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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Flathead engine
...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 Although flathead in-line 4 and 6 cylinder engines were frequently used for automobiles, tractors, etc., the best known flathe

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Vittorio Jano
...torio Jano''', born [[April 22]], [[1891]] - died [[1965]], was a famed [[automobile]] designer from the [[1920s]] through [[1960s]]. ...s and Ferrari took them over to great success. Now designing [[aircraft]] engines, Jano watched as [[Tazio Nuvolari]] drove a P3 to victory in the [[German G

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Straight-twin
...for each cylinder are more properly called inline or straight two cylinder engines, abbreviated as "I-2". Most of the British [[four-stroke cycle]] straight two cylinder engines had a crank angle of 360°, which means that both pistons have to be in the

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Timing light
...pic effect]], indicates the current timing of the spark. On multi-cylinder engines, the timing light is referenced to the number one cylinder. ...ch as an [[engine analyser]]. Self-contained units used to time automotive engines have an [[Electromagnetic induction|inductive]] pickup that clamps around t

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V16
...[[V engine|V]] configuration, having 16 [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s. Engines of this number of cylinders are not common. V16 engines have been used in certain luxury and high-performance [[automobile]]s, mostly for their smoothness (low vibration) since it is possible to mak

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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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V-twin
...ion of V-2 engines is uncommon. They are frequently referred to as V-twin engines, too, although this is technically incorrect.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} ...are used to refer to the crankshaft orientation. A common mistake with V-2 engines is to refer to the cylinder orientation (as mentioned on [http://www.bmwmot

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Fully Integrated Robotised Engine
... is a series of [[automobile]] engines from [[Fiat]]. It is constructed by robot assembly plants ("Robogate") to Mechanically they are simple [[straight-4]] engines with five bearings and [[overhead cam]] heads.

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Flat-12
...t true horizontally opposed engines (boxer) but rather 180° [[V engine|V]] engines. The real boxer has one crank pin per piston while in the 180° V engine t {{Automobile configurations}}

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Naturally-aspirated engine
...urbocharged]] nor [[supercharged]]. Most [[automobile]] gasoline (petrol) engines are naturally-aspirated, though turbochargers and superchargers have enjoye ...high-performance NA engines that benefit from higher [[internal combustion engines|compression]].

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Lancia Prisma
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...Delta]], and like its smaller hatchback "brother", shared its chassis and engines with the [[Fiat Ritmo]] and [[Fiat Regata|Regata]]. Unlike the Delta, thoug

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Lancia V6 engine
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...Aurelia]]. The engine remained in production through 1970. Lancia used V6 engines in road and sports cars, the D20 had a 60 degree quad cam V6 2962 cc e

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Beccaria motorcycle
:''Click here for the'' [[Beccaria]] ''automobile'' ...ne'' engines with 350 cc and a side-valve ''Villiers'' 346 cc two-stroke [[engines]]. The transmission was a [[Sturmey Archer]] three-speed driven by chain. P

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Giuseppe Busso
...idance of [[Orazio Satta Puliga]]. His main responsibility was racing car engines. {{Italian automobile designers}}

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Lancia Trevi
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" == Engines ==

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Cylinder (engine)
...nt is free to flow around the outside each individual cylinder. Wet lined engines have better cooling and more even temperature distribution, but the block i ...r-cooled motors use a common cylinder block to great effect. Water-cooled engines with only a few cylinders may also use individual cylinder cases, though th

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List of Ferrari engines
The following engines are built by [[Ferrari]]. ...mobile manufacturers in attempting to build a [[straight-twin|straight-2]] automobile engine. The racing prototype never made it to production.

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Pushrod
...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 ...es, which resulted in few manufacturers wanting to design both OHV and OHC engines.

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Cyclecar
...le cylinder, V-twin or [[four cylinder]] engines, sometimes [[motorcycle]] engines. Several motorcycle derivated components were used. Cyclecars were half way From [[1898]] to [[1910]], [[automobile]] production quicky expanded. Light cars of that era were commonly known as

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X engine
...prove [[engine vibration]] characteristics. X-engines were often [[coupled engines]] derived from existing powerplants. ...ns rather than their advantages. Overheating was a perpetual problem for X engines, and a major reason for the failure of the type.

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Diavolino
...e built small Honda engines were used. In Switzerland the Zurich firm "ZBR Automobile AG" was responsible for the production of "Diavolino" (devils). From 1987,

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C.A.R.
...name of CAR [[automobile]]s, which car's were primarily used as taxis. The engines came from Chapius-Dornier but production of automobiles models at C.A.R. ce

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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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Fiat 70
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" | Petrol Engines || 2001 cm3

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Intramotor Gloria
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...'[[Minarelli]]'' engines and later ''Sachs''. Models with 125 cc had Sachs engines (with 6 or 7 geared [[transmissions]]), like the 125 cm ''Enduro'' and lege

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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 ==Automobile use==

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Variable displacement
...ows the [[engine displacement]] to change for improved fuel economy. Many automobile manufacturers have adopted this technology as of 2005, but it is not a new ...e systems is the unbalanced cooling and vibration of variable-displacement engines.

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Iveco Stralis
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" All engines are four-valve straight-6 with modern pump nozzle injection.

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Quagliotti
...other manufacturers. He used 2 hp and 3 hp and 5 hp single-cylinder V-twin engines from ''[[Aster]]'' and ''De Dion''-''Bouton''. In the same year, car produc

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Camshaft
...t, each valve is opened once for each rotation of the crankshaft; in these engines, the camshaft rotates at the same rate as the crankshaft. In a [[four-strok ...ere the camshaft is on top of the [[cylinder head]], is quite common. Some engines use one camshaft each for the intake and exhaust valves; such an arrangemen

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V12
...delivery. In a large, heavy-duty engine, a V12 can run slower than smaller engines, prolonging engine life. ...craft to make a [[transatlantic]] flight, the [[NC-4]], had a set of 4 V12 engines.

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Fiat Scudo
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...cudo is built with a choice of two diesel engines and one gasoline. Diesel engines were either the 69PS 1.9 D, or the 109PS 2.0 JTD and the gasoline engine wa

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Ferrari 308GTB
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |Engines:||3.2 L [[V8]] 3.2 L [[fuel injection|FI]] [[V8]] (''GTBi/GTSi

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Opposed piston engine
...the Opposed Piston or OP designs can use 1 crankshaft like the Doxfordship engines [http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Marine/doxford.htm] and the Comer OP truck engines [http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/technical/TS3.htm]

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Cylinder
...r-cooled motors use a common cylinder block to great effect. Water-cooled engines with only a few cylinders may also use individual cylinder cases, though th {{Automobile configurations}}

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Machine
...red machines. Hydraulics are widely used in heavy equipment industries, [[automobile]] industries, [[Marine (ocean)|marine]] industries, [[Aeronautics|aeronauti ...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile"

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Alfa Romeo 75
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...nge at launch featured 4-cylinder 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 liter petrol carbureted engines, a 2.0 liter intercooled turbo diesel, and a 2.5 liter fuel injected V6. I

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Fiat 527
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ==Engines==

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Crankshaft
...he [[cylinder bore]]. In production [[V engine|V]] or [[flat engine|flat]] engines, neighboring connecting rods attach side by side to the same crank throw, s ...are easily carried around by hand, compared to crankshafts for inline or V engines, which need to be handled and transported as heavy chunks of metal.

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Snecma
...translated as "National Company for the Study and Construction of Aviation Engines." ...hata]] and [[Bugatti]]. Bugatti's automobile background (turbochargers and engines) was valuable to Snecma. In a subsequent reorganisation all aero-engine mai

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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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Alfa Romeo Twin Spark engine
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...race cars (GTA, TZ) to enable it to achieve a higher power output from its engines. And in the early and middle 1980s, Alfa Romeo incorporated this technology

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Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |Engines:||4.4 L [[V12]]

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Firing order
...red, starting with #1, from the front of the engine to the rear. In most [[automobile|cars]] the front of the engine also points to the front of the car, but som 

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Ferrari 308
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |Engines:||3.2 L [[V8]] 3.2 L [[fuel injection|FI]] [[V8]] (''GTBi/GTSi

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Alfa Romeo 146
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...cars, by virtue of the earliest vehicles inheriting the older 1.7 L Boxer engines which are backwards compatible with the older 33s and Sprints. In consequen

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Moto Aquila
...the German company (DKW). In 1934 they started to use the ''Python Rudge'' engines that had four radial valves and avaliable in 250 cc and 350 cc. ...927 to 1935, in [[Turin]]. But the further production included models with engines of 175 cc, four-stroke, with the valves in the head, with a purely sporting

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Connecting rod
==Internal combustion engines== ...rength and lightness at the expense of affordability) for high performance engines, or of [[cast iron]] for applications such as motor scooters. They are not

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DR Motor Company
...; the first models are of [[Gonow]]: an off-road and a pick up with diesel engines of origin Fiat. In addition, this group of companies had entered into negot ...anics are isernina, while [[engine|engines]] are a petrol Chinese ([[Chery Automobile|Chery]]) And a diesel built by the establishment [[Fiat]] Powertrain [[Term

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Pushrod engine
...sion cam-in-block design, and is the [[archetype]] for most modern pushrod engines. Generally L-head engines use a small chamber on one side of the cylinder to carry the valves. This h

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V engine
[[Image:L V VR6 engines.png|thumb|200px|right|Three types of engine: a — straight engine, b& ...t [[V-twin engine]] designs have two-pin cranks. However, in German, these engines are all identified as '''boxermotors'''.

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Radial engine
...craft]] engines before being superseded by [[turboshaft]] and [[turbojet]] engines. ...e [[1920s]]. The large frontal area combined with the durability of radial engines proved advantageous to fighter aircraft at times though, particularly those

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MF layout
...993-1997. These vehicles have [[Longitudinal engine|longitudinal]] mounted engines; [[transverse]] engined vehicles are possible in theory if the issue of pas {{Automobile layouts}}

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F.I.T.
''Click here for [[FIT]] automobile'' ...based in [[Milan]]. They built motorcycles using 123 cc and 147 cc ''ILO'' engines.

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Flat engine
...do not share crank pins in this way, and [[flat engine#180° V-engines|180° engines]] which do. ...onding pistons reach [[dead center|top dead center]] simultaneously. Boxer engines should not be confused with [[opposed piston engine]]s, which use a complet

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Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...fts]], refer to the main [[Alfa Romeo]] page. For the later [[Twin Spark]] engines which also feature twin camshafts, and are based on a [[Fiat]] designed [[e

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Fiat 514
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" | Body style || 2/4-door [[sedan (car)|sedan]] 2/4-door [[Cabriolet (automobile)|cabriolet]] 2-door [[spyder]]

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Ferrari GT4
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |Engines:||3.0 L [[V8]]

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Cylinder head
...e's early success in production automobiles and continued success in small engines, such as lawnmowers. This design, however, requires the incoming air to neg ...from the [[crankshaft]] to linear mechanics to operate the valves (pushrod engines perform this conversion at the camshaft lower in the engine and use a rod t

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Fiat 510
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ===Engines===

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Fiat Palio Weekend
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |Engines:||'''FIRE Engines''' 1.2 16v, 1.4 8v '''Fiassa Engines''' 1.5 8v, 1.6 8v '''Torque''' 1.6 16v '''Powertrain''' 1.8

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Alfa Romeo 90
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" The '''Alfa Romeo 90''' was a [[mid-size car|mid-size]] automobile produced by the [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer [[Alfa Romeo]] between [[198

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Fiat 525
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" The '''Fiat 525''' is a passenger car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer [[Fiat]] between 1928 and 1931. The 525 was larger successor t

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Marine engine
...|English]] between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. ==History of engines==

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Lancia 2000
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ==Engines==

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Engine
...|English]] between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. ==History of engines==

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Fiat Campagnola
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ===Engines===

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Flat-twin
...flat engine]]s, sub-type "boxer", and shares most characteristics of those engines. Flat-twin engines were used in several economy cars, including the [[Citroën 2CV]], the [[P

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Fiat Fiorino
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ed in [[1977]]. It received a facelift in [[1980]]. The Fioriono used same engines as Fiat 127.

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Crossflow cylinder head
...exhaust manifold keeps the air in the intake manifold cooler. Most modern engines are of a crossflow design. One of the most successful crossflow engines is the [[Alfa Romeo]] [[4-cylinder]]. Used for decades, the basic design o

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Straight-4
...owever, in tractors and other construction machinery, four-cylinder diesel engines with a displacement of 4.5 litres and above can still be found. ...cc engine used in the [[Austin-Healey 100]] and [[Austin Atlantic]]. These engines were generally the result of a long incremental evolution process and their

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Innocenti De Tomaso
The '''Innocenti De Tomaso''' was an automobile produced by [[Innocenti|Nuova Innocenti]] from 1976 to 1992.The 4-cylinder ...the Mini underpinnings with chassis and [[straight-3|straight-3 cylinder]] engines sourced from the [[Daihatsu Charade]]. The base model was now called the In

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Flat-6
...sically expensive design to manufacture, and somewhat too wide for compact automobile engine compartments, which makes it more suitable for luxury sports cars, c ...et Corvair|Corvair]] with flat-6 [[air-cooled]] [[Chevrolet Corvair engine|engines]]. The [[Citroen DS]] was originally intended to be fitted with an air-cool

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Combustion chamber
...hemispherical" and "wedge" for overhead valve engines; and "pent-roof" for engines having 3, 4 or 5 valves per cylinder. The shape of the chamber has a marke ...injection engines usually give better fuel economy but indirect injection engines can use a lower grade of fuel.

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Multi-valve
Most multivalve engines use an [[overhead camshaft]] to actuate the valves, and many use [[double o ==Modern multivalve engines==

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Alfa Romeo Grand Prix
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...had also 16 valve head and 90 degree valve angle. Usually Alfa Romeo DOHC engines are though to be [[Vittorio Jano]]s creations but the first one was Merosi'

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Carnielli (Motorcycle)
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...with 75, 98 and 125 cc. There were different versions, all with two-stroke engines and using a 98 cc NSU engine, a 125 cc motoleggera and a scooter with the s

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Dora
...created a few prototypes with electric drive with rear wheels driven by 2 engines. These models were never put into a series of production.

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Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...ia-Marchetti S.M.79-II - torpedo-bomber, powered by three [[Piaggio P.XI]] engines

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Ferrari 600
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" |Engines:||6.0 L [[V12]]

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Alfa Romeo in Formula One
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" | Engines || [[Alfa Romeo]]

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Overhead cam
Many OHC engines today employ [[Variable Valve Timing]] and [[multi-valve|multiple valves]] ...ectly or through a [[rocker arm]] as opposed to overhead valve [[pushrod]] engines, which have tappets, long pushrods and rocker arms to transfer the movement

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Ettore Bugatti
[[Automobile]] designer and manufacturer '''Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti''' was born on [ Before founding his own automobile company, Ettore designed a number of engines and vehicles for others. [[Prinetti & Stucchi]] produced his [[1898]] [[Bu

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Hemi engine
...re neither the hemi engine's inventors nor the first to commercialize hemi engines. ...tomotive engines, shortly after proving the concept of internal combustion engines themselves.

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Overhead camshaft
Many OHC engines today employ [[Variable Valve Timing]] and [[multi-valve|multiple valves]] ...n which a one camshaft is placed within the [[cylinder head]]. In straight engines this means there is one camshaft in the one head, while in a [[V engine]] t

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Fiat Bravo (2007)
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" === Engines ===

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Fiat 130 HP Corsa
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" | Engines || Gasoline 4-cylinder bibloc 16286 cm3

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V10
...and parts costs, many V10 engines available today are based on 90° [[V8]] engines, which is less than ideal for balance. Until recently V10s had rarely been a popular configuration for road [[automobile|cars]]: a V12 is only slightly more complicated and runs more smoothly and

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Bernardi
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" ...or car to travel the Italian roads. He did research on internal combustion engines at the University of [[Padua]] in 1884 and built his first engine that drov

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Automobile self starter
...ull away immediately, or else risk a broken wrist, or worse. Moreover, as engines evolved, they became larger and compression ratios increased, making hand c ...7 was issued to [[Clyde J. Coleman]] of New York City for an electric '''[[automobile]] self-starter'''. He had invented the first self-starter in [[1899]], but

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Fiat 501
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" Another 2614 ''S'' (sport) versions were equipped with 3.5 L engines with 101 hp at 3000 rpm. This car is of particular importance to [[Fiat]] b

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Briggs and Stratton
...er]]s, as well as [[kart]]s, power washers, [[wood chipper]]s, etc. Their engines are known for their durability and low [[repair and maintenance|maintenanc ...atton engines, this works by the principle of [[engine braking]], with the engines default state as braked. The operator must hold a handle to remove the engi

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Rossi Parma
...fties off-road motorcycles with their own frames and with 123 cc ''Sachs'' engines. * There was a brand called [[Rossi]] (Automobile) and [[Rossi Varese]].

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W8
...h the introduction of their [[W12]]. It combined two narrow-angle [[VR6]] engines around a single [[crankshaft]] for a total of four banks of cylinders. For The major advantage of these engines is packaging, i.e., they contain high numbers of cylinders but are relative

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Torque steering
...e capabilities this problem becomes more and more evident with high output engines with strong low rpm range torque. * Distribute the torque better between the driveshafts. Automobile transmission manufacturers like [[Quaife]], [[Torsen]], [[TrueTrac]], [[Gol

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Fiat 5
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" | Petrol Engines ||9025 cm3 - 75 hp

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Straight-6
Straight-6 engines have perfect primary and secondary [[engine balance|balance]] and require n ...mbinations and some low speed diesels in cargo and passenger ships. These engines have a displacement of 1,000 L or more.

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Fiat 4
...border:1px solid #999; font-size:83%; line-height:1.5; " summary="Infobox Automobile" | Petrol Engines || 5699 cm3 - 45 hp

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Rotary engine
This article is about a type of piston engine. For internal combustion engines which do not use pistons, see [[pistonless rotary engine]] and [[Wankel eng ...d during [[World War I]]. It was also used in a few [[motorcycle]]s and [[automobile|cars]].

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