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• Variable displacement
  ...or improved fuel economy. Many automobile manufacturers have adopted this technology as of 2005, but it is not a new concept. ...configurations and displacements. But the system was troublesome, and the technology was quickly retired.
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• Warm air intake
  ...pose of increasing the <nowiki>power</nowiki> of the [[internal-combustion engine]]. ...gen]] available for [[combustion]] with [[fuel]]. Warm air from inside the engine bay is used opposed to air taken from the generally more restrictive stock
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• W16
  [[Image:Volkswagen W16.jpg|thumb|300px|<center>Bugatti W16 Engine</center>]] ...W16 engines consist of four banks of four cylinders (two juxtaposed [[V8]] engine blocks), coupled to a single [[crankshaft]].
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• Cagiva N 1
  ...[[2003]], while the '''Cagiva N 1''' is the same motorcycle, but with the engine at full power and produced by [[1997]] to [[1999]]. == Technology ==
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• Motor
  ...converts [[energy]] into mechanical power, and is often synonymous with [[engine]]. *[[Engine|Motor (Engine)]] - a machine used to convert chemical fuel into mechanical power by contr
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• DOHC
  ...valves. In engines with more than one [[cylinder bank]], such as the [[V engine]], this designation means two camshafts ''per bank''. ...ave long rods to transfer the movement of the lobes on the camshaft in the engine block to the valves in the [[cylinder head]].
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• Controlled Combustion Engine
  '''Controlled Combustion Engine''' (CCE) is a type of [[internal combustion engine]] designed by Brad Howell-Smith in [[1995]]. It uses two counter-rotating [ It is around a quarter the size and weight of a conventional engine of similar output and uses fewer moving components. A [[four stroke cycle|f
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• Ohc
  ...]] to improve efficiency and power. OHC also inherently allows for greater engine speeds over comparable cam-in-block designs. ...t engines this means there is one camshaft in the one head, while in a [[V engine]] there are two camshafts: one per cylinder bank.
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• Same Deutz-Fahr
  ...urer of [[tractor]]s, [[combine harvester]]s, [[Internal combustion engine|engine]]s and equipment. They build tractors under the '''SAME''', '''Lamborghini In 2003, SDF invested in [[Deutz AG]], the German engine-manufacturer, also formerly KHD. Also in 2003, SDF purchased 10% of the [[
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• Cylinder
  [[Image:cylinder.png|frame|right|A piston and cylinder from a steam engine]] ...essed into each of the cylinder spaces. A cylinder block sits between the engine [[crankcase]] and the cylinder head, translating the [[reciprocal|reciproca
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• Ohv
  In [[automotive engineering]], an '''overhead valve''' [[internal combustion engine]] is one in which the entry and exit [[poppet valve|valves]] and ports are The original overhead valve or '''OHV''' [[piston engine]] was developed by the [[Scottish-American]] [[David Dunbar Buick]]. It emp
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• Franz Xaver Reimspiess
  ...gine for the Volkswagen basing his design on Kales’s opposed four-cylinder engine for the NSU prototype. For the Auto Union P racing car Reimspieß designed His most well-known invention had however little to do with technology. Reimspieß was the designer of the [[Volkswagen]] logo. For this idea he
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• Leone
  ...acing. The typical characteristics of all the models was the [[Fiat 1100]] engine and the [[tubular frame]].
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• Drivetrain
  ...[propeller]], etc). Sometimes "powertrain" is used to refer to simply the engine and transmission, including the other components only if they are integral ...le's '''driveline''' consists of the parts of the drivetrain excluding the engine and transmission. It is the portion of a vehicle, after the transmission,
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• Piston
  ==Internal combustion engine== ...Hypereutectic piston]]. The piston is an important component of a [[piston engine]] and of [[hydraulics|hydraulic pneumatic systems]].
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• Single cylinder engine
  [[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif|framed|right|[[Four-stroke cycle]] (or Otto cycle)]] ...just one cylinder, the simplest arrangement possible for an Otto or Diesel engine. The mounting can be standing, lying or angled..
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• Multi-valve
  ...[cylinder head]] of four [[Poppet valve|valve]] engine.<br />( [[Nissan VQ engine]] )]] In [[automotive engineering]], an engine is referred to as '''multi-valve''' (or '''multivalve''') when each cylinde
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• Alfa Romeo 24hp
  The "24 HP" engine, equipped with an engine monobloc quadricilindrico generally 4,082 cc, with camshaft in the bottom a ...customary at the time, particularly appreciated by customers for advanced technology, for structural strength and, even more, for the remarkable power allowed t
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• Lamborghini V10
  ...tion of cylinders. It was chosen to keep the [[center of gravity]] of the engine low. For the same reason, a [[dry-sump]] lubrication system was also used. There is speculation that this engine will also be fitted to a planned [[Audi RSR]] [[supercar]] based on the [[A
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