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• Jaguar XJ13
  ...ck, although there were differences in the inlet porting, valve angles and combustion chamber shape. The first engine ran in 1964.
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• 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
• Turbo Engine
  :''This article describes the internal combustion engine component often known as a'' '''[[Turbo Engine|turbo]]'''''. For oth ...t gas-driven compressor used to increase the power output of an [[internal-combustion engine]] by increasing the mass of oxygen entering the engine. A key advant
  33 KB (5,096 words) - 15:49, 15 March 2010
• Chevrolet Volt Concept
  ...f most Americans, which is around 25 miles. With use of a small [[internal combustion engine]] hooked to a generator to resupply the batteries, the vehicle's ran
  6 KB (824 words) - 12:50, 10 August 2008
• Tickford
  ...d at Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell. With the advent of the [[internal combustion engine]], the company progressed into developing coachbuilt cars as early a
  5 KB (830 words) - 00:46, 14 March 2007
• Facel Vega
  ...]] [[DeSoto (automobile)|DeSoto]] [[Chrysler Hemi engine|Hemi]] [[internal combustion engine|engine]]. The overall engineering was straightforward, with a tubula
  5 KB (795 words) - 08:25, 5 November 2007
• Supercharger Engine
  ...ed to compress air into the [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s of an internal combustion engine. The additional mass of oxygen-containing air that is forced into th ...) became the first person to patent a forced-induction system for internal combustion engines. His first [[[[Supercharged Engine|Supercharged]] Engine|supercharg
  19 KB (2,878 words) - 23:59, 9 June 2006
• Turbocharging
  ...rence across the intake valves and thus the amount of airflow entering the combustion chamber. This ability to fill the cylinder with air is its volumetric effic
  5 KB (843 words) - 08:54, 25 August 2008
• Ignition system
  ...lications, e.g. in oil-fired and gas-fired boilers. The earliest internal combustion engines used a flame, or a heated tube, for ignition but these were quickly ...larly demanding ignitions systems- if prompt ignition does not occur the [[Combustion chamber|chamber]] can fill with excess fuel and oxidiser and significant ov
  19 KB (3,009 words) - 09:08, 14 June 2009
• VR6 engine
  The '''VR6 engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] [[engine configuration|configuration]], consisting of six [[cylind ...ust two [[overhead camshaft]]s to drive all of the [[poppet valve#Internal combustion engine|valves]]. This simplifies engine construction, and reduces costs.
  19 KB (2,892 words) - 16:29, 24 May 2010
• Lloyd (Germany)
  ...t cars were licence-built [[Kriéger]] electric vehicles. Petrol-[[internal combustion engine|engined]] models followed in 1908 with 3685 cc engines, but few were
  5 KB (774 words) - 08:52, 4 December 2010
• Carburetor
  ...alia) for short, is a device that mixes air and [[fuel]] for an [[internal-combustion engine]]. It was invented by Hungarian scientists [[Donát Bánki]] and [[J ...egarding fuel economy and pollution, the excess air allowing more complete combustion.
  26 KB (4,156 words) - 02:12, 15 December 2008

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