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Flat-10 engine

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The flat 10 engine is an engine with two banks of five opposing cylinders each.

It is a rare engine configuration. Chevrolet experimented with a flat 10 engine based on their Corvair flat 6 design when they wanted to expand the Corvair marque to include full-size vehicles.

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Piston engine configurations
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Type BourkeControlled combustionDelticOrbitalPistonPistonless (Wankel) • RadialRotarySingleSplit cycleStelzerTschudi
Inline types H · U · Square four · VR · Opposed · X
Stroke cycles Two-stroke cycleFour-stroke cycleSix-stroke cycle
Straight Single · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 8 · 10 · 12 · 14
Flat 2 · 4 · 6 · 8 · 10 · 12 · 16
V 4 · 5 · 6 · 8 · 10 · 12 · 16 · 20 · 24
W 8 · 12 · 16 · 18
Valves Cylinder head portingCorlissSlideManifoldMultiPistonPoppetSleeveRotary valveVariable valve timingCamless
Mechanisms CamConnecting rodCrankCrank substituteCrankshaftScotch YokeSwashplateRhombic drive
Linkages EvansPeaucellier–LipkinSector straight-lineWatt's (parallel)
Other HemiRecuperatorTurbo-compounding