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• Overhead camshaft
  ...ngine manufacturers easily accept the added complexity in trade for better engine performance and greater design flexibility. The [[Overhead Camshafts|OHC]] ...y and power. [[Overhead Camshafts|OHC]] also inherently allows for greater engine speeds over comparable cam-in-block designs.
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• Drive shaft
  ...nt for transmitting [[torque]] and rotation, usually used to connect other components of a [[drive train]] that cannot be connected directly because of distance An [[automobile]] may use a longitudinal shaft to deliver power from an engine/transmission to the other end of the vehicle before it goes to the wheels.
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• Léon Bollée
  ...n Bollée in 1886 was a three-wheel tandem driven by a single-cylinder 3 HP engine and belt drive. The cars sold well and several hundred were made for Léon ...eared in 1899. It was a four-wheel car with independent suspension, whose engine attracted the attention in 1900 of [[Automobiles Darracq S.A.|Darracq]], wh
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• Dawson Car Company
  ...h a [[water-cooled]], [[four-cylinder]] 1795 cc [[overhead camshaft]] engine coupled to a three-speed [[gearbox]]. It was available in four body styles, ...tor Company| Morris]] and [[Austin Motor Company|Austin]]. Nearly all the components were made in-house.
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• U engine
  ...bank" engine, although these terms are sometimes used also to describe [[V engine]]s. ...rankshaft), and this is therefore a far more common design today when both engine forms are produced from the same basic design.
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• Volvo LCP2000
  | Engine ...any components in aluminum, plastic and even a magnesium engine block. The engine was a turbo diesel that also could run on bio-diesel.
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• Ferrari Dino
  | Engine | {{{engine}}}
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• Silhouette racing car
  ...ogy/bodychassis/index.jsp GM Racing Technology</ref>, or the output of the engine<ref>http://www.dtm.com/reglement_t.php DTM technical specifications</ref>.
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• Cetane number
  ...ion and start of combustion (ignition) of the fuel. In a particular diesel engine, higher cetane fuels will have shorter ignition delay periods than lower ce ...erall cetane number of the diesel is the average cetane quality of all the components. There is very little actual cetane in diesel fuel.
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• Fluid coupling
  A fluid coupling consists of three components, plus the hydraulic fluid: *Two turbines (fan like components):
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• Mitsubishi 8A8 engine
  {{Engine Infobox | |Engine Name = Mitsubishi 8A8
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• Blue Flame
  ..., pressurized by helium gas to eclipse previous speed records set with jet engine powered vehicles. The effort was sponsored by The American Gas Association ...he '''Blue Flame''' was designed by Reaction Dynamics,Inc. and some of the components were manufactured by Galaxy Manufacturing Co. of Tonawanda, New York. Gala
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• Intercooler
  ...ir and fuel to be combusted per engine cycle, increasing the output of the engine. ...ng [[Engine knocking| detonation]], excessive wear, or heat damage to an [[engine block]].
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• Maserati Tipo 63
  | Engine ...the Tipo 61; the front suspension, the 5-speed transaxle and of course the engine. The rear suspension was new, Alfieri had abandoned the de Dion tube and tr
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• Poppet valve
  ==Internal combustion engine== ''Poppet valves'' are used in most [[piston engine]]s to open and close the intake and exhaust [[cylinder head porting|ports]]
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• Whitlock
  ...ger still the 20/70 with 6 cylinder 2973&nbsp;cc [[Henry Meadows|Meadows]] engine made from 1926 to 1930. The latter car had a radiator very reminiscent of t
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• Ford Shelby Cobra
  | Engine ...1960's. The first Cobra featured a large, high-performance [[Ford Windsor engine]] inside a small roadster that [[AC Cars]] had designed specifically for S
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• Twin-clutch Gearbox
  ...errupting power, by applying the engine's torque to one clutch just as the engine's torque is being disconnected from the other clutch. Since the synchronize [[Getrag]] has a working 7-speed DCT transaxle for mid-engine longitudinal applications, capable of taking more than 750 newton-meters, w
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• Dino
  ...an attempt by Ferrari to produce a relatively low cost sports car by using components from other vehicles. ...ion of displacement and cylinder count with two digits for the size of the engine in deciliters and the third digit to represent the number of cylinders, i.e
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• Frazer Nash
  ...engines the cars were natural successors to the imported BMWs: the Bristol engine being a development of that of the [[BMW 328]]. These post-war cars are ver After World War II, Frazer Nash used an engine derived from the [[BMW 328]] engine, produced by Bristol, for a series of 85 notable sports and racing cars, in
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