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• Overhead camshaft
  ...ain configurations place the camshaft within the cylinder heads, above the combustion chambers, and drive the valves or lifters directly instead of using pushrod Many [[Overhead Camshafts|OHC]] engines today employ Variable Valve Timing and multiple valves to improve efficienc
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• Étienne Lenoir
  ...bile (car)|Hippomobile]] with a hydrogen gas fuelled one cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont: top speed about 9 ...9">Georgano, p.9.</ref> and production by Reading Gas Works for Lenoir Gas Engines in London had begun.<ref name="Georgano, p.9"/>
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• W8 engine
  ...[[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]] [[reciprocating engine|piston]] [[internal combustion engine]] in a [[W engine|W configuration]], or two imaginary 15&nbsp;degree ...gine|VR4s]] instead of [[inline-four engine|inline fours]]. Nearly-square external dimensions mean the large eight cylinder engine will fit in the space typic
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• HEMI
  ...he performance of their cars. The first hemispherical shaped (half sphere) combustion chamber engine was developed prior to World War II, but it was used very li ...first cars to offer a Hemi engine as an option. Chrysler referred to these engines as the "Red Ram", "Firedome" and "Firepower" motors. These early 301, 331,
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• Felix Wankel
  ...[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]] Motors Ltd. || GB || diesel and hybrid engines 100-850 Ps |12.09.1967 || Graupner || BRD || 0,1-3 PS model engines
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• BMW S85 engine
  *Cast aluminum heads with four valves per cylinder and CNC machined ports and combustion chambers. Valves are actuated though non-rotating inverted bucked cam follo ...t system, engine misfires as well as knock can be measured simultaneously. Combustion quality raises or lowers cylinder pressure. The ionic current is measured b
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• Connecting rod
  ==Internal combustion engines== ...down and rotates around the [[crankshaft]]. Conrods, especially in racing engines, may be called "billet" rods, if they are machined out of a solid billet of
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• Mopar
  ...e two-barrel carburetors (six pack). The Hemi (named for its hemispherical combustion chambers) still serves as the pinnacle of power in Mopar automobiles. == External links ==
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• BlueTec
  ..._x) reducing systems, for use in their [[Diesel]] [[automobile]] engines. One is a urea catalyst called '''AdBlue''', the other is called '''DeNO<su The BlueTec was on the [[Ward's 10 Best Engines]] list for 2007.
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• Locomobile
  ...ually sold. Locomobile started experimenting with [[gasoline]] [[internal combustion engine]]s in 1902, and stopped making steam vehicles the following year. ...mobiles are also referred to as ''locomobiles.'' In this world, [[internal combustion]] was never discovered and automobiles are always powered by steam.
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• Magneto (electrical)
  ...those in [[two-stroke cycle|2-stroke]] and [[four-stroke cycle|4-stroke]] engines used in small [[motorcycles]], lawnmowers and chainsaws, serving a similar ...alternate means to provide electrical power for that equipment, such as an external dynamo or alternator. Most importantly, the magneto has not any provision f
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• Cetane number
  '''Cetane number''' or CN is a measurement of the [[combustion]] quality of [[diesel fuel]] during compression ignition. It is a significa ...gnition delay; the time period between the start of injection and start of combustion (ignition) of the fuel. In a particular diesel engine, higher cetane fuels
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• RKM engine
  ..., heating systems,hydraulic lifts, water jet engines, hydro- and pneumatic engines, and medical pumps.<ref name = "RKMArticle">Schapiro, B., "The RKM Rotary P ...ion of every model depends upon its use. For instance, internal combustion engines would include injection valves and after-burning chambers. These, however,
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• Compression ratio
  ...est capacity. It is a fundamental specification for many common combustion engines. ...is at the bottom of its [[stroke (engines)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at the top of its stroke.
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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...the eminent engineer [[Henry Maudslay]] to make marine internal combustion engines. He was joined by his sons Cyril and Reginald Walter but the latter soon le The engines did not sell very well and in 1902 they made their first engine intended fo
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• Toyota 1LR-GUE engine
  Toyota's V-10 combustion motor, the '''1LR-GUE''', arrived with Lexus's new 2010 [[Lexus LF-A|LF-A]] ==External Links==
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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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• Karl Friedrich Rapp
  ...to build and sell "engines of all types, in particular internal combustion engines for aircraft and motor vehicles", in addition to building an engine for the ...the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army Administration continued to order Rapp engines licensed through Austro-Daimler. On behalf the Austrian war Ministry, [[Fra
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• Heater core
  The [[internal combustion engine]] in most [[car]]s and [[truck]]s is cooled by a water and antifreez == Air cooled engines ==
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  A '''pistonless rotary engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine] ...to its [[Mazda Wankel engine|Wankel engines]] as ''rotary engines''. O.S. Engines, which produces a Wankel model airplane engine, refer to it as a ''wankel r
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