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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]]<br>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]]<br>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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