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• Cylinder bank
  ...ngine block]] to be built from a single piece of metal, which is machined. Engines often have more than one row of pistons, each with their own block, and the ...[engine configuration]]s have cylinder banks. [[Radial engine]]s have each piston in a separate cylinder, and this was common in earlier in-line engine desig
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• W16
  ...ocating engine|piston engine]] in a [[W engine|W configuration]]. All W16 engines consist of four banks of four cylinders (two juxtaposed [[V8]] engine block Volkswagen Group currently produces W16s, based on two of its [[W8]] engines which are based on technology from the narrow-angle [[VR6]] engine. The na
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• Short block
  ...to manufacturer's instructions. Liners are finished as necessary. Not all engines use replaceable cylinder liners. ...ston rings|rings]], piston pins, and piston pin bushings are fitted to the piston. The pistons are installed on the rods using and are placed in the cylinder
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• Engine configuration
  ...tion engine]]. These components include [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s, [[piston]]s, [[crankshaft]] or crankshafts and [[camshaft]] or camshafts. For many [[automobile]] engines, the term '''block''' is interchangeable with engine in this context, for e
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• U engine
  ...gine''' is a [[piston engine]] made up of two separate [[straight engine]] engines (complete with separate crankshafts) joined by [[gear]]s. ...interest in this design is its ability to share common parts with Straight engines.
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• Timing marks
  ...[piston engine]], '''top dead centre''' ('''TDC''') is the position of a [[piston]] in which it is furthest from the [[crankshaft]]. ...top dead centre''' ('''BTDC''') although a very few small and fast-burning engines, such as the Nissan MA10 with hemispherical [[combustion chambers]], requir
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• W18
  The only '''W18''' engines built to date powered the [[Bugatti EB 118]], [[Bugatti EB 218]] and [[Buga ...chnical_school/engine/tech_engine_packaging.htm#W18 Volkswagen's VR6 and W-engines]
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• Cylinder (engine)
  [[Image:cylinder.png|frame|right|A piston and cylinder from a steam 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
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• Cylinder
  [[Image:cylinder.png|frame|right|A piston and cylinder from a steam engine]] ...n engine]] or [[external combustion engine]] is the space within which a [[piston]] travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank
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• V20
  Engines of this number of cylinders are not common, but this configuration was used V20 diesel engines have also been used in marine applications: Mercedes-Benz has produced one
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• V4 engine
  [[Lancia]] produced several [[Lancia V4 engine|narrow-angle V4 engines]] from the [[1920s]] through [[1960s]] for cars like the [[Lancia Lambda|La The [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] of Europe produced two totally different V4 engines with a [[balance shaft]], one in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and one in [[Ger
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• Opposed piston engine
  [[Image:Opposed_piston_engine_1.jpg|thumb|300px|Fairbanks-Morse opposed piston [[diesel engine]]s on the [[submarine]] ''[[USS Pampanito]]''.]] ...the Opposed Piston or OP designs can use 1 crankshaft like the Doxfordship engines [http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Marine/doxford.htm]
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• Piston
  [[image:piston.jpg|thumb|right|200px|'''piston + connecting rod''']] In general, a '''piston''' is a sliding [[plug]] that fits closely inside the [[bore]] of a [[cylin
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• Straight-9
  ...26, 32, Wasa32LN, 38, 46 and 46F series. The 9 cylinder versions of these engines develop between 1620 and 51480 Kw (2170 - 69040 hp). {{Piston engine configurations}}
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• H engine
  ...antage of the H configuration is to allow the building of reasonably short engines with more than 12 cylinders, their compact size being useful as [[aircraft ...ier|Rapier]], [[Napier Dagger|Dagger]] and [[Napier Sabre|Sabre]] airplane engines. Unlike the BRM and the Lycoming, the Sabre eventually matured into a super
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• Flat-12
  ...rather 180° [[V engine|V]] engines. The real boxer has one crank pin per piston while in the 180° V engine two pistons share the same crank pin. With twel {{Piston engine configurations}}
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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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• Straight-10
  ...ylinder]]s. A straight-10 is a very long engine, and therefore straight-10 engines are not common in [[automobile]]s. ...(43,100kW) at a speed of 104RPM. Like the vast majority of marine diesel engines, it is capable of running on diesel or [[fuel oil|heavy fuel oil]], the lat
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