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• Fiat Topolino
  Dante Giacosa, engineer very pragmatic, will prove to be really the ideal person to invent a new concept at the right time: it was the [[Fiat 600]],
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• Four-stroke cycle
  ...rty-five degrees of rotation, a technique called ''valve overlap''. Under ideal conditions, the fresh fuel/air charge will push remaining exhaust gasses ou
  11 KB (1,775 words) - 09:48, 2 August 2009
• Zuri Metzgete
  ...clings major races. For many years the event was held in early May, not an ideal date as the majority of the top classic riders were jaded after contesting
  9 KB (1,203 words) - 16:27, 12 September 2009
• Ferrari Dino engine
  ...as a discussion between Vittorio Jano and Enzo and Dino Ferrari about the ideal 1.5 L engine for use in the [[1958]] [[Formula 2]] [[auto racing]] ser
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• Rotary engine
  ...ays "full throttle", and also because the valve timing was often less than ideal. The rotating mass of the engine made it, in effect, a large gyroscope. Th
  12 KB (2,030 words) - 18:09, 14 September 2009
• Hellé Nice
  ...he owner of the very successful car company thought Hellé Nice would be an ideal person to add to the male drivers of his line of racing vehicles. Having be
  10 KB (1,616 words) - 22:50, 11 June 2009
• ALCA
  ...amous comedian company [[Erminio Macario]], the Volpe is advertised as the ideal choice for the mobility of postwar Italian. The vehicle discovered two post
  7 KB (1,106 words) - 15:09, 28 September 2010
• Formula Ford
  ...] engine. The Zetec was criticized by engineers and designers as less than ideal because of its bulk and weight. The move to Duratecs has brought Formula Fo
  11 KB (1,809 words) - 22:52, 27 April 2009
• Roller bearing
  Rolling-element bearings often work well in non-ideal conditions. But sometimes minor problems cause bearings to fail quickly and
  13 KB (2,121 words) - 07:16, 6 July 2009
• Fiat Ducato
  ...is a mixture of the Goods Transport and the [[Passenger]] Transport. It is ideal for the transport of people and goods alike, and it can accommodate up to 9
  9 KB (1,159 words) - 23:15, 31 October 2009
• Spacecraft propulsion
  ...thrusters have exhaust velocities that can be enormously higher than this ideal, and thus end up powersource limited and give very low thrust. If the vehic ...resents pressure that the bell has not turned into thrust. To achieve this ideal, the diameter of the nozzle would need to increase with altitude, which is
  30 KB (4,590 words) - 20:28, 7 August 2008
• Engine Control Unit
  ...ensor|lambda probe]] and modify the fueling to achieve [[stoichiometric]] (ideal) combustion.
  14 KB (2,119 words) - 07:30, 6 July 2009
• Sports cars
  ...ls in a [[Porsche 911]] provides excellent traction, but cannot be seen as ideal as the weight of the engine is not between the two axles. This causes poor
  9 KB (1,403 words) - 11:59, 8 October 2009
• Carburetor
  ...aft carburetors were almost ubiquitous, partly because a downdraft unit is ideal for [[V engine]]s. In Europe, the side-draft replaced downdraft as underbon ...nd gasoline both ideal fluids; in practice, however, their deviations from ideal behavior due to viscosity, fluid drag, inertia, etc. require a lot of compl
  27 KB (4,310 words) - 17:26, 17 May 2011
• Anzani
  ...rther into a three-cylinder, [[Air cooling|air cooled]], [[radial engine]] ideal for the new [[aeroplane]]s. One of the early engines, the 25hp Anzani 3W,
  9 KB (1,484 words) - 07:40, 1 April 2012
• Understeer
  ...t of the old ones to the front axle, for this reason. However, this is not ideal either.
  10 KB (1,667 words) - 23:41, 7 July 2010
• Graphite-reinforced plastic
  ...e manufacture of fishing rods. Its high flexibility and low weight make it ideal to feel every bite.
  12 KB (1,819 words) - 19:04, 14 November 2010
• Fuel injection
  ...fic fuel consumption). When cylinder-to-cylinder distribution is less than ideal (and it always is under one condition or another, and worse on [[carburetor ...t the emissions, by not letting the combustion events be at the chemically ideal ([[stoichiometric]]) air/fuel ratio. Grosser distribution problems eventual
  35 KB (5,222 words) - 08:19, 11 June 2009
• Formula 3000
  ...size of those needed for F3000 races, and the weight distribution was not ideal. The first few years of the championship saw March establishing a superiori
  13 KB (1,974 words) - 08:28, 8 October 2009
• Jonghi
  ...has to wait a long time her future husband, who does not wish to lose the ideal conditions for groped to beat the speed record of 125 class on the distance
  12 KB (1,866 words) - 06:47, 4 December 2010

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