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    An overhead valve engine, abbreviated (OHV) and sometimes called a pushrod engine, is a piston engine whose valves are located in the cylinder head above...
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    overhead valve engines (OHV), where the camshaft is located below the combustion chamber in the engine block. Single overhead camshaft (SOHC) engines...
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  • Thumbnail for Straight-six engine
    produced in single overhead camshaft and dual overhead camshaft configurations until a V6 engine replaced it. The Nissan TB overhead valve engine was introduced...
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  • Thumbnail for Flathead engine
    poppet valves contained within the engine block, instead of in the cylinder head, as in an overhead valve engine. Flatheads were widely used internationally...
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    an IOE engine, the intake valves were located directly above the cylinder (like the later overhead valve engines), however the exhaust valve remains...
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    Austin's marine engine of 1910 produced 300 bhp and was installed in a speedboat called "Irene I"; its all-aluminium, twin-overhead-valve engine had twin magnetos...
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  • Thumbnail for IOE engine
    "pocket valve" being used for IOE engines. An F-head engine combines features from both overhead-valve and flathead type engines, the inlet valve operating...
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    A multi-valve or multivalve engine is one where each cylinder has more than two valves (an intake, and an exhaust). A multi-valve engine has better breathing...
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    Valvetrain (redirect from Valve train)
    cylinder or cylinder bank. Overhead valve engine: A single camshaft remains in the block below the cylinder(s), however the valves are located in the cylinder...
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  • Thumbnail for Hydraulic tappet
    valve lifter or hydraulic lash adjuster, is a device for maintaining zero valve clearance in an internal combustion engine. Conventional solid valve lifters...
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    Tappet (redirect from Valve lifter)
    into opening and closing of a valve. Finger followers are used in some high-performance dual overhead camshaft (DOHC) engines, most commonly in motorcycles...
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  • Thumbnail for Mercedes-Benz OM606 engine
    overhead camshaft (DOHC) diesel engine with indirect injection manufactured by Mercedes-Benz between 1993 and 2001. It replaced the single overhead camshaft...
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  • Thumbnail for General Motors 60° V6 engine
    12-valve cam-in-block or overhead valve engines, except for the LQ1 which uses 24 valves driven by dual overhead cams. These engines vary in displacement...
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  • Thumbnail for Suzuki J engine
    It features dual overhead cams, 16 valves in total, multi-port fuel injection, and variable valve timing in later models. The J engine was Suzuki's 'big...
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    to 1956 had a sidevalve ('flat head') engine, whereas the later XL Sportster models use an overhead valve engine. The first Sportster in 1957 had many...
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  • The Y-block engine is a family of small block overhead valve V8 automobile engines produced by Ford Motor Company. The engine is well known and named...
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  • Thumbnail for Mitsubishi 4G9 engine
    4G9 engine is a series of straight-4 automobile engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors. All are 16-valve, and use both single- and double- overhead camshaft...
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  • Thumbnail for General Motors LS-based small-block engine
    All three generations are overhead valve engines, otherwise known as pushrod engines. Overhead valve engines have the valves mounted above the cylinder...
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  • Thumbnail for Chrysler Hemi engine
    The Chrysler Hemi engine, known by the trademark Hemi or HEMI, refers to a series of high-performance American overhead valve V8 engines built by Chrysler...
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  • Thumbnail for Chevrolet Inline-4 engine
    pioneered the overhead valve engine, used the same basic engine design for Chevrolet: exposed pushrods and rocker arms which actuated valves in the detachable...
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  • In a piston engine, the valve timing is the precise timing of the opening and closing of the valves. In an internal combustion engine those are usually...
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  • Thumbnail for Ford flathead V8 engine
    through 1953. During the engine's first decade of production, when overhead-valve engines were used by only a small minority of makes, it was usually known...
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  • Thumbnail for Pontiac straight-6 engine
    the standard engine in the Tempest. Offered also in 1967, the 230 cu in (3.8 L) OHC 6 shared internal dimensions with the overhead valve Chevrolet straight-6...
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  • Thumbnail for Toyota UR engine
    The Toyota UR engine family is a 32-valve dual overhead camshaft V8 piston engine series which was first introduced in 2006, as the UZ series it replaced...
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  • Thumbnail for Crossflow cylinder head
    same side. Crossflow heads use overhead valves, but these can be actuated either by overhead camshafts, or by a valve-train, which has the camshafts in...
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    Camshaft (category Engine components)
    bottom of the engine. Early flathead engines locate the valves in the block and the cam acts directly on those valves. In an overhead valve engine, which came...
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    Cylinder head (redirect from Engine head)
    plugs and possibly heat dissipation fins. In more modern overhead valve and overhead camshaft engines, the head is a more complicated metal block that also...
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  • Thumbnail for Subaru EJ engine
    previous Subaru EA engine. The EJ series was the mainstay of Subaru's engine line, with all engines of this series being 16-valve horizontal flat-fours...
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  • Thumbnail for Ford Cologne V6 engine
    the Cosworth 24v derivative and later 4.0 litre SOHC engines were pushrod overhead-valve engines, with a single camshaft between the banks. The Cologne...
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  • Thumbnail for Northstar engine series
    2011. Regarded as GM's most technically complex engine, the original double overhead cam, four valve per cylinder, aluminum block/aluminum head V8 design...
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