A flat-twelve engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-twelve, is a twelve-cylinder piston engine with six cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft...
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extremely powerful twin-turbocharged flat-twelve engine for their Porsche 917 sports prototype; between 1969 and 1973. The engine was designed by chief engineer...
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A flat engine is a piston engine where the cylinders are located on either side of a central crankshaft. Flat engines are also known as horizontally opposed...
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Porsche's existing flat-twelve engine. V16 engine W16 engine "Coventry Climax FWMW Engine". Exclusive: Porsche to run sixteen cylinder engine at Goodwood (Video)...
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Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
replaced the front engined Daytona and was the first in a series of road-going Ferraris equipped with a mid-mounted flat-twelve engine. The 365 GT4 BB was...
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engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where two banks of six cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft. V12 engines are...
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Modular Engines to replace the Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 flat-six engine. This development program investigated flat engines with between two and twelve cylinders...
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turbocharged flat-twelve engine producing up to 820 kW (1,100 hp). Ferrari 126C4/M2 (1984) 1984 Ferrari 126C4/M2, a 1.5 litre turbocharged V6 engine used in...
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V4 motor/engine can be a transverse or an in-line. Where the cylinders are arranged in two or more lines (such as in V engines or flat engines), each line...
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Ferrari Testarossa (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
Pininfarina at the request of the 29th Sultan of Brunei. It featured the flat-twelve engine of the Ferrari F512 M, on which it is based, and a 7-speed sequential...
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Lycoming O-1230 (category Abandoned military aircraft engine projects of the United States)
Lycoming O-1230 was a flat-twelve engine for aircraft designed and developed by Lycoming Engines in the 1930s. Although the engine was flown in an aircraft...
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12-cylinder engines used by Ferrari in the championship wins of Niki Lauda in 1975 and 1977 and of Jody Scheckter in 1979 were flat-twelve engines. Citations...
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their title sponsor. The engine, designed by Luciano Pederzani, Renato Armaroli and Giuseppe Bocchi, was a flat-twelve engine very similar to the contemporary...
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Subaru 1235 (category Formula One engines)
5-litre, 60-valve flat-twelve engine in the boxer configuration that the Japanese firm's road cars utilised. Although the flat-twelve design had proven...
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Jiotto Caspita (category Cars powered by boxer engines)
The Mk. I Caspita was built with a detuned Subaru 1235 flat-twelve engine, a Formula One engine originally built by Motori Moderni for Subaru and rated...
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developed a 3.0-litre flat-twelve engine for their MS120B F1 car. A prototype with an aluminium crankcase is part of the engine display at the Matra Museum...
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flat-eight engines of differing displacements over the course of many years. They were mainly used in Porsche's racing cars. The first Porsche flat-eight...
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Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair...
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ten, twelve, or even sixteen cylinders are placed in two separate planes, looking like a "V" when viewed from the end of the crankshaft. Flat or boxer...
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A flathead engine, also known as a sidevalve engine or valve-in-block engine, is an internal combustion engine with its poppet valves contained within...
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Ferrari 212 E Montagna (category Mid-engined cars)
flat-twelve engine for its 1512 F1 car. This basic design by Mauro Forghieri was modified by Stefano Jacoponi to create the Tipo 232 2-litre engine used...
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automotive engines.[citation needed] 1904–1911 Buick OHV flat-twin World's first production overhead valve engine. 1909 Oakland vertical engine 1991–present...
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deflect incoming fire. Delagarde also produced the engine for the EBR; an air-cooled 6.0 L flat-twelve engine that produced 250 hp (186.4 kW) on gasoline and...
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EMD 645 (redirect from EMD 645 engine)
be individually replaced relatively easily and quickly. The engine block is made from flat, formed and rolled structural steel members and steel forgings...
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Ford GAA engine is an American all-aluminum 32-valve DOHC 60-degree gasoline-fueled liquid-cooled V8 internal combustion engine with a flat-plane crank...
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A reciprocating engine, more often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature...
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Morris Twelve is a model of Morris car introduced without fanfare in the autumn of 1934 as little more than a larger engined Morris Ten Four for which...
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is no need for a transmission tunnel, the floor can be flat. Rear traction: having the engine located over the driven wheels increases downward pressure...
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U engines. However, the V engine does not cancel the gyroscopic effect. The H engine layout uses a similar concept to U engines, whereby two flat engines...
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a mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine in front of the rear-wheel axles, but behind the front axle. The mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive...
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