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    engines use coil-on-plug ignition, a design that does not use spark plug wires. Spark plug wires have an outer insulation several times thicker than the conductor...
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    system, the spark plug receives high-voltage electricity (generated by an ignition coil in modern engines and transmitted via a spark plug wire) which it...
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    Ignition coil (redirect from Spark coil)
    of a spark-ignition engine to transform the battery voltage to the much higher voltages required to operate the spark plug(s). The spark plugs then use...
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  • Champion is an American brand of spark plug. Champion is a longtime sponsor of various racing events, cars, and series including two series run under sanctioning...
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    operating temperature. Diesel engines, unlike common spark-ignition engines, do not use spark plugs to ignite the air-fuel mixture. Instead, they rely solely...
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    Distributor (redirect from Plug-top coil)
    system of older spark ignition engines. The distributor's main function is to route electricity from the ignition coil to each spark plug at the correct...
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    coil output for a short period—enough to arc across the electrodes of a spark plug. The contact breaker is operated by an engine-driven cam. On an engine...
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    and/or primary ignition components (e.g. distributor cap, wires, ignition coil and spark plugs) and/or damaged fuel system components (fuel injectors, fuel...
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  • Engine knocking (redirect from Spark knock)
    cylinder does not result from propagation of the flame front ignited by the spark plug, but when one or more pockets of air/fuel mixture explode outside the...
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    Core plugs or Welch plugs, are used to fill the sand casting core holes found on water-cooled internal combustion engines. Sand cores are used to form...
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    Drive by wire or DbW technology in the automotive industry is the use of electronic or electro-mechanical systems in place of mechanical linkages that...
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    used in spark-ignition engines (such as petrol engines). It uses a magneto and a transformer to make pulses of high voltage for the spark plugs. The older...
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  • Camshaft Position Sensor (CMP), Powertrain Control Module (PCM), spark plug wires and spark plugs. The Beta engine family includes the following engine codes:...
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  • balcony with barbed wire by the trio and decapitated. The group attempts to flee the building, but their snowmobiles' spark plug wires have been taken out...
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    the cylinders. In a spark ignition (e.g. gasoline/petrol) engine, the firing order corresponds to the order in which the spark plugs are operated. In a...
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    top of the engine. This position allowed for shorter spark-plug wires and kept the spark plugs away from the hot exhaust manifolds, something which was...
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    a spark plug to thunder for a lightning discharge), light, and heat. Spark gaps were used historically in early electrical equipment, such as spark gap...
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    higher compression ratios than petrol engines, because the lack of a spark plug means that the compression ratio must increase the temperature of the...
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    used in spark-ignition engines (such as petrol engines). It uses a magneto and a transformer to make pulses of high voltage for the spark plugs. The older...
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  • Ignition Magneto Compression ignition Coil-on-plug Distributor Glow plug Ignition coil Spark plug Spark plug wires Engine management Engine control unit (ECU)...
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    removal of the spark plug boot in order to attach a direct pickup between the wire's terminal and the centre conductor of the spark plug. Mark Schnubel...
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  • differed only in the cylinder head and the need to fit a distributor and spark plugs in the petrol version whilst fitting an injection pump and injectors...
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    "Fast-tracking ECU development". Automotive Industries. "Circumventing ECU protection being illegal". Wired. 2015-01-23. "Federal Register". 2015-10-28....
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  • gas/air mixture is introduced to the precombustion chamber and ignited by spark plug. The flame front spreads to the lean gas air mixture in the cylinder....
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    valve actuation. Effects of this rich running can include fouling the spark plugs, damaging the catalytic converter, stalling and hesitation when the throttle...
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    like catalytic converter cores that have had alternate channels plugged - the plugs force the exhaust gas flow through the wall and the particulate collects...
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    magnetic field. This counterflow limited the power output to the pickup wires, and induced waste heating of the copper disc. Later homopolar generators...
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  • Ignition Magneto Compression ignition Coil-on-plug Distributor Glow plug Ignition coil Spark plug Spark plug wires Engine management Engine control unit (ECU)...
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    Ignition Magneto Compression ignition Coil-on-plug Distributor Glow plug Ignition coil Spark plug Spark plug wires Engine management Engine control unit (ECU)...
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    Ignition Magneto Compression ignition Coil-on-plug Distributor Glow plug Ignition coil Spark plug Spark plug wires Engine management Engine control unit (ECU)...
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