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• Flat-4 engine
  ...It does not usually require balance shafts, but unlike flat-6 and inline-6 engines, the flat-4 is not a fully balanced configuration. {{Piston engine configurations}}
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• Flat-8 engine
  A '''flat-8''' or '''horizontally-opposed-8''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] in [[Flat engine|flat]] configura {{Piston engine configurations}}
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• Opposed piston engine
  ...ed-piston engine''' is one in which the cylinders are double-ended, with a piston at each end and no cylinder head. ...t engine]]s. Though flat engines are sometimes referred to as horizontally opposed, they are very different mechanically.
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• Jonova engine
  ...and has a wide power stroke of over 2/3rds of its rotation, as opposed to piston-cylinders which have power for only a 1/4 of their rotation. [[Category:Engines]]
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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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• X engine
  ...Viewed head-on, this would appear as an X. X engines were often [[coupled engines]] derived from existing powerplants. Most examples of X engines are from the World War II era, and were designed for large military aircraf
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• H engine
  ...power-take-off. The H configuration allows the building of multi-cylinder engines that are shorter than the alternatives, sometimes delivering advantages on ==Automotive engines==
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• V engine
  ...[[internal combustion engine]]. The [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] and [[piston]]s are aligned, in two separate planes or 'banks', so that they appear to b ...the German terminology distinguishes the "true" Boxer and 180° bank angle engines as such)
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• Flat engine
  ...do not share crank pins in this way, and [[flat engine#180° V-engines|180° engines]] which do. ...center simultaneously. Boxer engines should not be confused with [[opposed piston engine]]s, which use a completely different concept.
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• Straight engine
  ...nherently off balance and rough, unlike 90 degree V fours and horizontally opposed 'boxer' 4 cylinders. ...as engine|Atlas]]'' family includes straight-4, straight-5, and straight-6 engines.
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• Wet sump
  ...[internal combustion engines]] which uses a built-in reservoir for oil, as opposed to an external or secondary reservoir used in a [[dry sump]] design. Four-stroke engines are lubricated by oil which is pumped into various bearings, and thereafter
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• Flat-6 engine
  ...wo banks of three cylinders on each side of a central [[crankcase]]. The [[piston]]s are mounted to the [[crankshaft]] such that opposing pistons move back a ...et Corvair|Corvair]] with flat-6 [[air-cooled]] [[Chevrolet Corvair engine|engines]]. The [[Citroen DS]] was originally intended to be fitted with an air-cool
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• Reciprocating engine
  A '''reciprocating engine''', also often known as a '''piston engine''', is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to ...anded or "exhausted" gases are removed from the cylinder by this [[Stroke (engines)|stroke]]. The exception is the Stirling engine, which repeatedly heats and
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• Commer
  ...switching production at the factory to production of Renault truck and bus engines in the early 1990s. ...kins and [[Cummins]] diesel engines, and less commonly [[Mercedes]] diesel engines. <ref>[http://www.allpar.com/ "allpar.com" section on Commer]</ref>
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• Balance shaft
  ...designs that are not inherently balanced (for example, most four-cylinder engines). They were first invented by British engineer Frederick Lanchester in 1904 .../DINAMOTO/on-line%20papers/twin%20motors/twin.html "Shaking forces of twin engines"], Vittore Cossalter, Dinamoto.it</ref>
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...rotary engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine]] does, but instead uses one or more ...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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• RKM engine
  ..., and medical pumps.<ref name = "RKMArticle">Schapiro, B., "The RKM Rotary Piston Maschines" In: Vernetzte Wissenschaften, Eds: Peter Jörg Plath und Ernst-C ...r's walls, "jumps" from wall to wall, thus performing a rotary motion. The piston has an appropriately shaped aperture fitted with a gear structure, and this
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• Flat-12 engine
  ...ut rather 180° [[V engine|V]]-engines. A true boxer has one crank pin per piston, while in the 180° V-engine, two opposing pistons share the same crank pin {{Piston engine configurations}}
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• Turbocharging
  ...A naturally aspirated automobile engine uses only the downward stroke of a piston to create an area of low pressure in order to draw air into the cylinder th ...gine's total output. Turbochargers, on the other hand, convert some of the piston engine's exhaust into useful work. This energy would otherwise be wasted ou
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• Brabus
  ...vel where Brabus is now officially considered its own auto manufacturer as opposed to a tuning company. Brabus engines range from small 200 horsepower K4 blocks for [[Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class|SLK
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