A bank engine (United Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker), banking engine, helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive...
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A W12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where either three banks of four cylinders, or four banks of three cylinders are arranged in a W configuration...
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A W engine is a type of piston engine where three or four cylinder banks share the same crankshaft, resembling the letter "W" when viewed from the front...
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A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration. The...
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have one camshaft per bank of cylinders. Dual overhead camshaft (DOHC, also known as "twin-cam") engines have two camshafts per bank. The first production...
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common crankshaft. V16 engines are less common than engines with fewer cylinders, such as V8 and V12 engines. Each bank of a V16 engine can be thought of as...
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'cylinder bank'. The angle between cylinder banks is called the 'bank angle'. Engines with multiple banks are shorter than straight engines of the same...
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VR5 engine based on the VR6. VR6 engines share a common cylinder head for the two banks of cylinders. Only two camshafts are needed for the engine, regardless...
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A V engine, sometimes called a Vee engine, is a common configuration for internal combustion engines. It consists of two cylinder banks—usually with the...
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aviation, an inline engine is a reciprocating engine with banks of cylinders, one behind another, rather than rows of cylinders, with each bank having any number...
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consisting of an inline-three engine, due to the odd number of cylinders in each bank. Straight-six engines and flat-six engines do not experience this imbalance...
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components in each cylinder bank cancel each other out. A V engine is typically more compact and lighter than a U engine, in part due to the lack of a...
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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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slightly. This engine has the cylinders numbered 1-3-5 on the left-hand bank (front bank for FWD applications) and 2-4-6 on the right-hand bank, the number...
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bank as the 60° V6 family they are based on, but the new 99 mm (3.90 in) bore required offsetting the bores by 1.5 mm (0.059 in) away from the engine...
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V10 engine is a ten-cylinder piston engine where two banks of five cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft. V10 engines are...
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combustion engine, the engine block is the structure that contains the cylinders and other components. The engine block in an early automotive engine consisted...
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with a 15-degree angle. A VR5 engine block houses two staggered rows of cylinders within a single, short and wide bank – one row of two cylinders and...
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The General Motors LS-based small-block engines are a family of V8 and offshoot V6 engines designed and manufactured by the American automotive company...
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A W8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine with four banks of two cylinders each, arranged in a W configuration. In practice, the W8 engine is created...
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An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy...
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Napier Deltic (redirect from Delta engine)
cylinders per bank, respectively. In 1946, the Admiralty placed a contract with the English Electric Company, parent of Napier, to develop this engine. One feature...
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axis Banked turn, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine Bank shot...
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Greece and Rome Banker (surname), a surname Bank engine or helper engine, a locomotive that helps other engines up steep hills Bankers (train), American passenger...
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and its 60 degree bank angle, officials of all three companies involved insist that the Volvo V8 is not related to the SHO engine; the die-cast open-deck...
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feature of some J-family engine models is Honda's Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) system. Initially, the system turns off one bank of cylinders under light...
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Chrysler A57 multibank (category Chrysler engines)
253 cu in (20.5 L) engine that was created in 1941 as America entered World War II. It consists of five banks of inline-6 cylinder engines. It was born out...
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A flat-four engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-four engine or boxer engine, is a four-cylinder piston engine with two banks of cylinders lying...
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The Toyota MZ engine family is a piston V6 engine series. It was Toyota's second V6 engine after the VZ engine family, of which the MZ series succeeded...
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engines for their Volkswagen, Audi, and Bentley marques, since 2001. The only mass-production W12 engine is the Volkswagen 6.0 WR12 48v, a four-bank design...
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