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• Bentley 3 Litre
  ...was also among the first with two [[spark plug]]s per cylinder, pent-roof combustion chambers, and twin [[carburetor]]s. It was extremely undersquare, optimize
  4 KB (570 words) - 05:35, 5 March 2007
• Flat-12 engine
  A '''flat-12''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] in a [[Flat engine|flat]] configuration, having 12 [[cylinder (eng
  4 KB (647 words) - 10:55, 24 May 2010
• Diesel-Electric Hybrid
  ...never need to be recharged before use. The diesel fuel powers an internal combustion engine that is usually smaller (and therefore more efficient) than a conven ...s, a diesel-electric hybrid can be equipped with a smaller, more efficient combustion engine while providing acceleration performance equal to its conventional c
  18 KB (2,608 words) - 02:08, 19 May 2009
• Manifold vacuum
  '''Manifold vacuum''', or '''engine vacuum''' in an internal combustion engine is the difference in air pressure between the engine's [[Manifold (a The rate of airflow through an internal combustion engine is an important factor determining the amount of power the engine ge
  12 KB (1,914 words) - 14:54, 31 March 2010
• Gas turbine
  ...gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between. Gas turbine may also refer to just the turbine componen ...tor, combustion of the fuel increases the temperature. The products of the combustion are forced into the turbine section. There, the high velocity and volume of
  31 KB (4,779 words) - 13:07, 29 October 2010
• Jaguar XK6 engine
  ..., the new engines would need vee-opposed valves operating in hemispherical combustion chambers. Two configurations of this type were selected for comparison in 1 ...xcessively restricting the flow of gases into and out of the hemispherical combustion chambers. To satisfy these two conditions, a relatively wide angle of 70 de
  19 KB (2,986 words) - 15:25, 18 December 2009
• Fuel injection
  '''Fuel injection''' is a method/system for metering fuel into an [[internal combustion engine]], where the fuel is burned in air to release energy in the form of ...of injection schemes have existed since the earliest usage of the internal combustion engine.
  33 KB (4,922 words) - 12:15, 4 June 2009
• Catalytic converter
  ...ic converter provides an environment for a chemical reaction wherein toxic combustion byproducts are converted to less-toxic gases. The catalytic converter was i ...of lead deposits is often not possible (the lead becomes vapourised in the combustion chamber of a gasoline 4 stroke engine under the ambient temperature and pre
  22 KB (3,502 words) - 10:56, 28 March 2010
• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...randson of the eminent engineer [[Henry Maudslay]] to make marine internal combustion engines. He was joined by his sons Cyril and Reginald Walter but the latter
  4 KB (662 words) - 10:38, 18 May 2010
• Heater core
  The [[internal combustion engine]] in most [[car]]s and [[truck]]s is cooled by a water and antifreez
  5 KB (907 words) - 19:57, 6 July 2010
• Jaguar XJ13
  ...ck, although there were differences in the inlet porting, valve angles and combustion chamber shape. The first engine ran in 1964.
  5 KB (673 words) - 20:32, 2 September 2010
• Gasoline direct injection
  ...ssurised, and injected via a [[common rail]] fuel line directly into the [[combustion chamber]] of each [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]], as opposed to conventiona ...ne direct injection enables a stratified fuel charge (ultra [[lean burn]]) combustion for improved [[fuel efficiency]], and reduced emission levels at low load.
  26 KB (3,828 words) - 09:08, 21 August 2009
• Engine control unit
  ...ine|spark ignition engine]] requires a spark to initiate combustion in the combustion chamber. An ECU can adjust the exact timing of the spark (called [[ignition ...lled lambda probe and modify the fueling to achieve stoichiometric (ideal) combustion. On traditional gas powered vehicles in the USA stoich is 14.7:1.
  14 KB (2,189 words) - 21:25, 22 August 2009
• Wankel engine
  ...ngine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]] which uses a [[rotary combustion engine|rotary design]] to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead o ...is basically the result of a minimization of the volume of the geometric [[combustion chamber]] and a maximization of the [[compression ratio]], respectively. Th
  38 KB (5,940 words) - 16:12, 25 December 2010
• Wiesmann
  ...ters]] and the [[Wiesmann GT MF 4]] Coupé, all of which utilize [[Internal combustion engine|engine]] and transmission components supplied by [[BMW]].
  5 KB (686 words) - 14:56, 7 October 2008
• Karl Friedrich Rapp
  ...ew company to build and sell "engines of all types, in particular internal combustion engines for aircraft and motor vehicles", in addition to building an engine
  5 KB (701 words) - 07:00, 18 March 2009
• Cylinder block
  ...red holes for the [[piston]]s of a multi-cylinder reciprocating [[internal combustion engine]], or for a similarly constructed device such as a pump. It is a com ...Hypervideo showing construction and operation of a four cylinder internal combustion engine courtesy of Ford Motor Company]
  12 KB (1,808 words) - 16:42, 11 April 2010
• Straight engine
  ...ations, the '''straight engine''', or '''inline engine''' is an [[internal-combustion engine]] with all [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] aligned in one row or pla
  5 KB (767 words) - 00:59, 22 August 2009
• Felix Wankel
  ...l] - Animations of Wankel and other engines, ie. steam, stirling, internal combustion.
  5 KB (640 words) - 08:23, 21 August 2009
• Continuously Variable Transmission
  *The internal combustion engine may be completely shut down, rather than idle. *The internal combustion engine operates mostly at higher power demands, where it is more efficient.
  20 KB (3,147 words) - 19:04, 27 September 2009

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