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    A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston, one up...
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  • piston engine (e.g. two-stroke engine, four-stroke engine). "Stroke length", the distance travelled by the piston during each cycle. The stroke length...
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    A two-stroke diesel engine is a diesel engine that uses compression ignition in a two-stroke combustion cycle. It was invented by Hugo Güldner in 1899...
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    A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft...
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  • six-stroke engine is one of several alternative internal combustion engine designs that attempt to improve on traditional two-stroke and four-stroke engines...
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    use in crankcase compression two-stroke engines, typical of small gasoline-powered engines. Unlike a four-stroke engine, the crankcase of which is closed...
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  • Two- and four-stroke engines are engines that combine elements from both two-stroke and four-stroke engines. They usually incorporate two pistons. The...
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    Power Stroke, also known as Powerstroke, is the name used by a family of diesel engines for trucks produced by Ford Motor Company and Navistar International...
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  • The five-stroke engine is a compound internal combustion engine patented by Gerhard Schmitz in 2000. The goal of the five-stroke engine is to achieve higher...
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    engines use 180 degree crankshafts. Two-stroke engines typically use a 180 degree crankshaft, since this results in two evenly-spaced power strokes per...
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    The Saab two-stroke was a two-stroke cycle, inline, two cylinder, and later three cylinder engine manufactured by Swedish automotive manufacturer Saab...
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  • on two-strokes for longer than most. Their first four-stroke engine was the SOHC F8A, which appeared in 1977. Suzuki continued to offer a two-stroke engine...
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    configurations of the various bore/stroke ratio: A square engine has equal bore and stroke dimensions, giving a bore/stroke value of exactly 1:1. 1953 – Ferrari...
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    familiar two-stroke and four-stroke piston engines, along with variants, such as the six-stroke piston engine and the Wankel rotary engine. A second...
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    opposed-piston engines include Cummins, Achates Power, and Fairbanks-Morse Defense (FMDefense). Compared to contemporary two-stroke engines, which use a...
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    Loading sample on chromatography columns. Certain types of two-stroke and four-stroke engines. Most hydraulic automotive power steering control valves....
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    360 uses a 256 cc (16 cu in) two-stroke engine. In 1980, Suzuki began production of a 543 cc (33 cu in) four-stroke engine, which was introduced in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Dugald Clerk
    was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878 and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson's...
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    chamber on the compression stroke of the engine. Most hot-bulb engines were produced as one or two-cylinder, low-speed two-stroke crankcase scavenged units...
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    small air conditioning compressor. Engine braking in a premix two-stroke engine can be extremely harmful to the engine, because cylinder and piston lubricant...
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    Puch Maxi (section Engine)
    provides the force needed to start the 48cc two stroke engine, or can be ridden like a bicycle when the engine is disengaged. The later models feature a...
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    cycle. In a four-stroke engine, the third stroke releases energy from the fuel, powering the fourth (exhaust) stroke and also the first two (intake, compression)...
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    as the two-stroke engine became increasingly uncompetitive in the US market due to emissions regulations, a switch to the Ford Taunus V4 engine was made...
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    In internal combustion engines, a split-single design is a type of two-stroke where two cylinders share a single combustion chamber. The first production...
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  • galvanised steel unibody chassis, front-wheel drive, a transverse two-stroke engine, and independent suspension. Because this 1950s design remained largely...
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    that had a short compression stroke and a longer expansion stroke. The first Atkinson-cycle engine, the differential engine, used opposed pistons. The second...
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    optically accessible, two-stroke engine HowStuffWorks: How Car Engines Work Reciprocating Engines at Infoplease. Piston Engines at the US Centennial of...
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    Crankcase (redirect from Open crank engine)
    a piston engine that surrounds the crankshaft. In most modern engines, the crankcase is integrated into the engine block. Two-stroke engines typically...
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    The car body was made of Duroplast. The main letdown was the engine, which was a two-stroke based on a pre-war DKW. It was competitive when launched, but...
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  • diesel engines put in service are 14-cylinder, two-stroke marine diesel engines; they produce a peak power of almost 100 MW each. Diesel engines may be...
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