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• V20 engine
  ...3,600 [[horsepower]] (2.7 MW). EMD later produced a 20-cylinder 710 series Diesel engine for the SD80MAC Locomotive. EMD still commonly manufactures these engines, which are primarily used in the power production and marine industries. A
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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...arly in the late 1980s and the current 2000s era. However, most road-going diesel-engined vehicles use turbochargers and [[intercooler]]s, because naturally- ...useful in very high performance cars, aircraft and helicopters. Many N/A engines today make use of [[Variable Length Intake Manifold]]s to harness Helmholtz
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• Petrol engine
  ...air are usually pre-mixed before compression (although some modern petrol engines now use cylinder-direct petrol injection). ...er compression ratios of a petrol engine gives a lower efficiency than a [[diesel engine]].
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• Dry sump
  ...oil]] management method for [[four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]] and large [[two-stroke]] piston [[internal combustion engine]]s that uses a secondary external res Four-stroke engines are lubricated by oil which is pumped into various bearings; and thereafter
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• Opposed piston engine
  ...org}}</ref> They should not be confused with [[flat engine]]s. Though flat engines are sometimes referred to as horizontally opposed, they are very different ...geared together, or even 3 geared crankshafts in the Napier Deltic diesel engines. The Deltic uses three crankshafts serving three banks of double-ended cyli
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• U engine
  ...ign is its ability to share common parts with straight engines. However, V engines with offset banks can also share straight engine parts (except for the cran ===Diesel===
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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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• Straight-3 engine
  ...p://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/smooth1.htm#Inline 3-cylinder engines|work=Mark Wan - AutoZine Technical School|publisher=AutoZine.org|accessdate ...]]. The inner cylinder is offset 180° from the outer cylinders. In these engines, cylinder #1 fires 180°. Later, cylinder #2 fires, and then 180° later c
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• Ruston & Hornsby
  ...utomobile|cars]], steam locomotives and a range of [[internal combustion]] engines. ...s sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1867. In 1868 they built five 0-6-0 tank engines for the Great Eastern Railway to the design of [[Samuel W. Johnson]]. Thre
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• Crossley
  More than 100,000 Crossley oil and gas engines have been built. ...ester city centre, including manufacturing pumps, presses, and small steam engines. William (''Sir'' William from 1910) joined his brother shortly after the p
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• Calculated Carbon Aromaticity Index
  ...l. For [[spark-ignition]] engines the fuel has an [[octane rating]]. For [[diesel engine]]s it depends on the type of fuel, for distillate fuels the [[cetane ...ls with a CCAI higher than 880 are often problematic or even unusable in a diesel engine. CCAI are often calculated under testing of marine fuel.
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• Mazda SKY-D engine
  |Type = Diesel *[[List of Mazda engines]]
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• Reciprocating engine
  ...anded or "exhausted" gases are removed from the cylinder by this [[Stroke (engines)|stroke]]. The exception is the Stirling engine, which repeatedly heats and ...r less in model engines up to several thousand cubic centimetres in ships' engines.
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• Multi-valve
  ...e forked rockers, and [[Cummins]] makes a 4-valve pushrod [[straight-6]] [[diesel]], the [[Cummins_B_Series_engine|Cummins B Series]] (now know as ISB). ...gle overhead camshaft. Mercedes and Ford are currently producing V6 and V8 engines using this configuration. Ford claims an 80% improvement in high rpm breath
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• Calculated Ignition Index
  ...fuel. For spark-ignition engines the fuel has an octane rating. For diesel engines it depends on the type of fuel, for distillate fuels the [[cetane number]]s
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• Straight-5 engine
  ...g car. [[Fiat]] also makes use of a five-cylinder engine (both petrol and diesel) in larger Fiat, [[Alfa Romeo]] and [[Lancia]] models. ...nes, while maintaining the fuel economy and "pep" of smaller four cylinder engines. Five cylinder turbos have been used on more than one occasion in sport an
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• BlueTec
  ...d [[BMW]] to share BlueTec technology with them. Together they try to push diesel technology to the masses in the United States. The BlueTec was on the [[Ward's 10 Best Engines]] list for 2007.
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• Rudolf Diesel
  [[Image:Rudolf_Diesel.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913)]] ...eptember 30, 1913 was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the [[Diesel engine]]. He was born in Paris and died on the English Channel.
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• Manifold vacuum
  ...the engine, and hence of the unused power capacity in the engine. In some engines, the manifold vacuum is also used as an [[Automobile ancillary power|auxili ...using the [[otto cycle]] or the [[two-stroke engine|two-stroke]] cycle; [[diesel engine]]s do not have throttle plates).
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• List of Mitsubishi engines
  This is a list of [[Internal combustion engine|engines]] produced by [[Mitsubishi Motors]] since 1964, and its predecessors prior Mitsubishi engines designed since 1970 use a four-digit naming convention:
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