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• All wheel drive
  ...h that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the input shaft. Each powered axle requires a differential to distribute power between the ...havior. It can also waste fuel, because it requires that there be a slight shaft speed difference under normal driving conditions (via gearing) to prepare t
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• Briggs and Stratton
  ...pin Starting''' - This was introduced in [[1961]] as a means of cutting in half the effort of manually starting an engine. This had replaced all means of s ...[[1968]], for their [[cast iron]] engine models, expanding it to vertical shaft engines powering lawn mowers in late [[1976]] before the setup came full ci
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• Front wheel drive
  ...s this particular configuration. It allows the use of equal-length [[half shaft]]s and the easy addition of [[all wheel drive]]. ...oints of a rear wheel drive car regularly see angles and wear of less than half that of front wheel drive vehicles.
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• Rear-wheel drive
  ...eg room for center rear passengers (due to the tunnel needed for the drive shaft), and sometimes less trunk space (since there is also more hardware that mu ...metal to form the transmission tunnel. There is a rear [[axle]] or rear [[half-shafts]]. A rear wheel drive car will weigh slightly more than a comparabl
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• Limited slip differential
  A 1.5-way notch is like an upside down triangle with a half triangle on top of it. During acceleration it will expand the casing at one ...ed slip differentials utilize [[planetary gear]]s to "sense" torque on one shaft. The most famous version is the [[Torsen]] differential invented by Vernon
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• Marco Andretti
  ...fineon Raceway|Sonoma]]) and finished 10th in points despite only starting half the races. In the second race of the season at St. Petersburg, FL, Marco snapped a half-shaft on the #26 Gillette Fusion trying to leave the pits. This was his first DNF
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• Capriolo
  ...the centrifugal oil filter, pity that it is mounted in front to the crank shaft so to oblige to remove the head, cilinder, flywheel and frontal case engine ...special alloy castle with conic couple that rend the machine over head cam shaft. Because the model was destined for the racing, the various changing do har
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• Ducati V-twin
  ...750 Imola Desmo]] that won at Imola in 1972. These engines had bevel gear shaft drive to the overhead camshaft, and were produced in round, square, and Mil ...g crank, [[Ducati V-twin motorcycles#Bevel gear driven valves|bevel geared shaft drive camshaft engines]], he had gone from making complex engines to making
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• Air brake (road vehicle)
  ...s the push rod out, moving the slack adjuster, thus twisting the brake cam shaft. This turns the S-cam. The S-cam forces the brake shoes away from one anoth ...If the vehicle has a dual air brake system, there will be a gauge for each half of the system or, sometimes, a single gauge with two needles. Dual systems
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• Bandini 750 sport siluro
  ...zed Bandini Offenhauser of 1625 cc [[engine capacity]] held for a year and half of the track record of Thompson in class up to 2000 cc ** Parking Mechanical tape, on [[tree (mechanical) | transmission shaft]]
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• Ducati Apollo
  ...nbsp;lb (270 kg) dry. Taglioni dismissed the Berliners’ suggestion of shaft drive, and chose chain final drive. The police specification stipulated 16& scheduled for the United States are planned for the second half of 1965. The price in the USA will be approximately $1500.|Berliners Motor
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• Straight-6
  ...primary and secondary [[engine balance|balance]] and require no [[balance shaft]]. ...chanically simpler than a V6 or V8. It has only one [[cylinder head]] and half as many [[camshafts]] as a V engine.
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• Engine displacement
  ...e, which is the volume displaced during a single rotation of the eccentric shaft. In cars, engines over 8 litres displacement are extremely rare in the last half-century and most modern cars utilise engines much smaller than that: in the
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• Four-wheel drive
  ...h that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the input shaft. Each powered axle requires a differential to distribute power between the ...ous coupling unit acts like a solid when under shear stress caused by high shaft speed differences, causing the two shafts to become connected. This design
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• Rear wheel drive
  ...eg room for center rear passengers (due to the tunnel needed for the drive shaft), and sometimes less trunk space (since there is also more hardware that mu ...metal to form the transmission tunnel. There is a rear [[axle]] or rear [[half-shafts]]. A rear wheel drive car will weigh slightly more than a comparabl
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...itted with wishbones and [[coil spring]]s at the front and a live axle and half-elliptic springs at the rear. Its excellent handling and good performance w ...d [[Concord (auto manufacturer)|Concord]] in [[Argentina]]. Over two and a half million were eventually produced.
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• Countach
  ...better weight distribution, the engine is actually 'backwards'; the output shaft is at the front, and the gearbox is in front of the engine, the driveshaft Substantially more than half were built in the final five years of production, as Lamborghini's new corp
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ...ing the clutches, the gear ratio from MG2 (the "drive" motor) to the wheel shaft is switched, either for higher torque or higher speed (up to 250 km/h / 155 ...peration with only a single power split device (incorporated as a single 3 shaft planetary gearset) is a typical example which can also be called Input-Spli
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• Junior
  ...change at four forward gears and reverse, brakes on rear wheels and motor shaft. The [[Ceirano]] also built a four-cylinder type, 16-20 HP, as telling the ...a town in southern England, there was a rise particularly famous for being half of the most prominent gentlemen drivers, who tries his hand in his bid seve
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• Lamborghini Countach
  ...better weight distribution, the engine is actually 'backwards'; the output shaft is at the front, and the gearbox is in front of the engine, the driveshaft Substantially more than half were built in the final five years of production, as Lamborghini's new corp
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