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• H engine
  ...ter of gravity. [[Jackie Stewart]] is believed to have said "This piece of metal is better used as a ship's anchor than as a power plant".
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• Flat-H
  ...fuel injection. [[Jackie Stewart]] is believed to have said "This piece of metal is better used as a ship's anchor than as a power plant". Despite its poor
  3 KB (449 words) - 12:23, 15 July 2008
• Quarter-midget
  ...eetmetal, or carbon fiber. The frame and the body panels if they are sheet metal can be powder coated and the body panels can be painted to give the car a u *Heavy Classes - Drivers over 100 lb
  3 KB (491 words) - 07:36, 9 August 2009
• Automobile self starter
  ...a separate starter relay. An armature is a part made of [[ferromagnetic]] metal that is magnetized by a coil of copper ribbon wound around it, creating an ...gear to engage the flywheel ring gear, and simultaneously closed a pair of heavy-duty contacts supplying current to the starter motor winding.
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• Crankshaft
  ...ers furthest from the output end acting on the torsional elasticity of the metal. ...or V engines, which need to be handled and transported as heavy chunks of metal.
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• RWD
  It still sees heavy use in [[taxicab|taxi]] and [[police]] fleets, due to cheaper maintenance, * [[Weight transfer]] during acceleration. (During heavy acceleration, the front end rises, and more weight is placed on the rear, o
  9 KB (1,331 words) - 08:17, 18 August 2009
• Poppet valve
  ...ting|ports]] in the [[cylinder head]]. The valve is usually a flat disk of metal with a long rod known as the ''valve stem'' out one end. The stem is used t ...he exhaust through the block lead to excessive overheating under sustained heavy load. This design therefore evolved into 'Intake Over Exhaust', '''IOE''' o
  5 KB (840 words) - 08:50, 8 October 2009
• Roller bearing
  ...ings are usually more expensive than ball bearings; and additionally under heavy loads the tapered roller is like a wedge and bearing loads tend to try to e ...ch push away the bearing [[lubricant]]. Sometimes, the resulting metal-to-metal contact welds a microscopic part of the ball or roller to the race. As the
  13 KB (2,121 words) - 07:16, 6 July 2009
• Carbon fibre
  ...rbon fiber is 3 times as strong as 1K carbon fiber, but is also 3 times as heavy. This thread can then be used to [[weave]] a carbon fiber filament [[Texti ...ls, and [[corrosion]] considerations, carbon has seen limited success in [[metal matrix composite]] applications; however, this can be improved by proper su
  6 KB (944 words) - 13:23, 8 October 2009
• Rear-wheel drive
  It still sees heavy use in [[taxicab|taxi]] and [[police]] fleets, due to cheaper maintenance, * [[Weight transfer]] during acceleration. (During heavy acceleration, the front end rises, and more weight is placed on the rear, o
  9 KB (1,427 words) - 23:37, 20 September 2009
• Ceramic
  ...d in the article on [[pottery]]. A [[composite material]] of ceramic and [[metal]] is known as [[cermet]]. ...ure]]s, as opposed to the normally much more gentle [[failure mode]]s of [[metal]]s.
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• De Tomaso Biguà
  Although the new Mangusta was not very long, it was extremely wide and heavy. Its 2670mm wheelbase was also among the longest for a 2-seater. That enabl ...des-Benz SLK]]'s folding metal roof, the Bigua/Mangusta featured a modular metal top design. The car can be configured as an open-topped targa, a convertibl
  6 KB (897 words) - 09:04, 21 December 2009
• Catalytic converter
  ...ts. Poisoning can sometimes be reversed by running the engine under a very heavy load for an extended period of time to raise exhaust gas temperature, which ...core a larger surface area, and therefore more places for active precious metal sites. The catalyst is added to the washcoat (in suspension) before applica
  11 KB (1,638 words) - 08:05, 8 October 2009
• Spark plug
  ...ulator and prevent electrical energy from leaking from the terminal to the metal case along the side of the insulator. The disrupted and longer path makes t ...eg; [[fahrenheit|F]] and 60,000 [[Volt|V]]. It extends from the metal case into the combustion chamber. The exact composition and length of the i
  23 KB (3,923 words) - 22:48, 11 June 2009
• Rear wheel drive
  It still sees heavy use in [[taxicab|taxi]] and [[police]] fleets, due to cheaper maintenance, * [[Weight transfer]] during acceleration. (During heavy acceleration, the front end rises, and more weight is placed on the rear, o
  9 KB (1,374 words) - 10:51, 8 October 2009
• Air filter
  [[Energy Star]] advises air filters be checked every month, especially during heavy use months (winter and summer). If the filter looks dirty after a month, i ...orporate ducting to provide cool and/or warm inlet air, and secured with a metal or plastic lid.
  10 KB (1,545 words) - 23:21, 2 October 2009
• Motocross
  ...surfaces, a highly absorbent suspension designed to cope with the shock of heavy landings, and short gearing designed for swift acceleration rather than the *[[Kawasaki Heavy Industries|Kawasaki]] ([[Japan]])
  12 KB (1,877 words) - 13:57, 14 May 2009
• Motor oil
  Coating metal parts with [[oil]] also keeps them from being exposed to [[oxygen]], which Rubbing of metal engine parts inevitably produces some microscopic metallic particles from t
  19 KB (3,054 words) - 08:52, 8 October 2009
• Aluminium
  ...elling]]" section below) is a silvery and [[ductile]] member of the [[poor metal]] group of [[chemical element]]s. It has the symbol '''Al'''; its [[atomic ...ion]] (due to the phenomenon of [[passivation]]) and its light weight. The metal is used in many industries to manufacture a large variety of products and i
  35 KB (5,288 words) - 22:04, 13 July 2007
• Hydropneumatic suspension
  ...suspension, there may be as many as nine spheres. They consist of a hollow metal ball, open to the bottom, with a flexible desmopan rubber membrane, fixed a ...r valves, also catching seeping fluid around the suspension push-rods. The metal and alloy parts of the system rarely fail even after excessively high milea
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