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• Alfa Romeo Twin Spark engine
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:240px; background:#505050; border-collaps ...ment facilitates the separate firing of the spark plugs in each combustion chamber, and also saves parts by utilising a "wasted spark" system, where - between
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• Benelli M4 Super 90
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps ...the chamber - rather than busy himself by "pumping" another round into the chamber.
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• Cagiva Freccia
  ...lve operated mechanical CTS (Cagiva Tourque System ) and CPC (Cagiva Power Chamber) to (centrifugal switch), the adoption of a system of balance and use a [[D ...oved, while remaining mechanic, also do not use more the CPC (Cagiva Power Chamber), and the choice of a classical [[Double Expansion | Expansion]] ends at th
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• Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps ...n, which provides improved fuel ignition and allows an improved combustion chamber shape with narrower angle between intake and exhaust valve. This was combin
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• Compression ratio
  ...ine]] is a value that represents the ratio of the volume of its combustion chamber; from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity. It is a fundamental sp ...bottom of its [[stroke (engine)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at the top of its stroke.
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• Poppet valve
  ...igh speed [[motorcycle]] and [[auto racing]] engines, eliminating '[[valve float]]' at high [[RPM]]. ...'''L-head''' engine because of the shape of the cylinder and [[combustion chamber]], also called '[[flathead engine]]' as the top of the [[cylinder head]] is
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• Carburetor
  ...pressed, manually pushes the float down and allows excess fuel to fill the float bowl and flood the intake tract. It also flooded the outside of the carbure === Float chamber ===
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• Perugia
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps *Ipogeo dei Volumni (Hypogeum of the Volumnus family), an Etruscan chamber tomb
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• Pushrod engine
  Generally L-head engines use a small chamber on one side of the cylinder to carry the valves. This has a number of advan ** I-head engines have more rotational mass, suffer more easily from valve "float", and exhibit a tendency for the pushrods themselves to flex or snap at hig
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• Lancia Aurelia
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps ...camshaft between the cylinder banks. A [[hemi|hemispherical]] combustion chamber and inline [[poppet valve|valves]] were used. A single [[Weber]] 40 [[carb
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• Lega Nord
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps In that period they held 30 of 630 seats in the [[Italian Chamber of Deputies|Chamber of Deputies]], 17 of the 325 [[Italian Senate|Senate]] seats, and three min
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• Sleeve valve
  ...cam profile, closing well after the cam lobe has moved away. This "valve float" can eventually cause the valve to not close at all before the cam comes ro ...ncrease the [[volumetric efficiency]] of the cylinder and the [[combustion chamber]] formed with the sleeve at the top of its stroke is almost perfect for com
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• Alfa Romeo 164
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps *Sound production was tested in an anechoic chamber, the car being subjected to stress and road noise testing, with instruments
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• Cam in block
  Generally L-head engines use a small chamber on one side of the cylinder to carry the valves. This has a number of advan ** I-head engines have more rotational mass, suffer more easily from valve "float", and exhibit a tendency for the pushrods themselves to flex or snap at hig
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• Cam-in-block
  Generally L-head engines use a small chamber on one side of the cylinder to carry the valves. This has a number of advan ** OHV engines have more reciprocating mass, suffer more easily from valve "float", and exhibit a tendency for the pushrods themselves to flex or snap at hig
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• AC Cars
  ...er-arms opening the exhaust valves to allow a cross flow "hemi" combustion chamber in a compact space. {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:center; margin:.5em 0 .5em 1em; font-size:83%; text-align:center; line-hei
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• Never Say Never Again
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps ...nges, in many ways for the better. Still launching a wet-sub from a secret chamber, the Disco is now a civilianised frigate, and equipped with the amenities e
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• Lambretta
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:center; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:300px; background:#505050; border-collap
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• Lancia Augusta
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:280px; background:#505050; border-collaps {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:center; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:800px; background:#505050; border-collap
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• Watkins Glen International
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collaps ...]], whose family had a summer home in the area. With [[Chamber of commerce|Chamber of Commerce]] approval and [[SCCA]] sanction, the first [[Watkins Glen Gran
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