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unusual facts about cylinder


Danny Havoc

Havoc was born in the small town of Cylinder, Iowa and started wrestling in his family's barn with his friends after school.


14N

Gnome-Rhône 14N, a WWII French 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine

Artificial lift

Piston/Plunger: This is a nickel-metal sprayed steel cylinder that goes inside the barrel.

Bentley Crewe

It was also the last Bentley fitted with a six-cylinder engine, as its successor, the S2 used the Crewe designed and developed all-aluminium Rolls Royce 6.25-litre V8, which has remained in production in various forms ever since.

BMW M30

The M30 powered a series of BMW 6-cylinder E9 and BMW E24 coupes to European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) throughout the 1970s and into the middle 1980s, even though a more powerful DOHC 24-valve head had been developed for high-performance motorsports and street use.

Bowman Malcolm

In this role he directed the construction and rebuilding of locomotives, coaches and goods wagons and the introduction of the von Borries two-cylinder compound locomotive to the BNCR.

Button car plan

Other approaches included the Ford Courier and Mazda B-Series utilities utilising Mitsubishi's 2.6-litre Astron four-cylinder engine, and a proposal to replace Mitsubishi's locally built Colt with a rebadged Toyota Corolla.

Class 02

DRG Class 02, a class of German, standard steam locomotive with a four-cylinder compound configuration, discontinued in favour of the DRG Class 01.

Cleator and Workington Junction Railway

Millgrove an inside cylinder 0-6-0ST built in 1919 by Peckett and Sons for the C&WJR.

Continental Motors, Inc.

Continental O-520 – six-cylinder, 320-horsepower, 100-octane, 1500-hour design time between overhauls.

Coppull Mill

It was driven by a-1600 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine by J & E Wood built in 1906.

Crouch Cars

The cars were still expensive, and so in 1923 the Economic 10/4 10 hp model was announced at £250, using a four-cylinder Dorman side-valve engine of 1200 cc.

Curtiss Robin

The Curtiss Robin, introduced in 1928, was a high-wing monoplane with a 90 hp (67 kW) V8 OX-5 8-cylinder engine built by the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company.

DDR Motorsport

DDR make his debut launching the DDR SP4 "Sport Prototype 4 cylinder" in the 2005 Knott's Berry Farm kit car show in California.

Doug Hele

Moore encouraged him to go to the Norton factory, where he helped Polish engineer Leo Kusmicki design and develop the Featherbed framed Manx Norton single-cylinder racing models that won world championships in the early 1950s.

Entec Engine Corporation

This concept covered by U.S. Patent # 6,279,550 and many others, include the concept of admitting cold, or chilled, compressed air into the cylinder and combustion chamber of a compression or spark ignited engine during its compression stroke.

Ferrari 315 S

The 315 S mounted a frontal V12 engine at 60°, with two valves per cylinder, for a total displacement of 3783,40 cm³.

Ford EcoBoost engine

Ford currently produces a 1.0-litre turbocharged In-Line three cylinder engine for the EcoBoost family developed at Ford's Dunton Technical Centre in the UK.

Fuel injection

By virtue of better dispersion and homogeneity of the directly injected fuel, the cylinder and piston are cooled, thereby permitting higher compression ratios and more aggressive ignition timing, with resultant enhanced power output.

Fulton Airphibian

Designed by Robert Edison Fulton, Jr., it was an aluminum-bodied car, built with independent suspension, aircraft-sized wheels, and a six-cylinder 165 hp engine.

GM 122 engine

The MPFI and SFI versions produced enough power to allow the 2.2 to replace the old Pontiac Iron Duke engine as the 4-cylinder offering in the S/T platform trucks and A-body cars.

GNR Class H4

In 1945, Edward Thompson rebuilt K3 No. 206 into a two-cylinder engine forming the LNER Class K5.

GvpA

Both the conical end caps and central cylinder are made up of 4-5 nm wide ribs that run at right angles to the long axis of the structure.

H15

LSWR H15 class, a 1914 British class of 2-cylinder 4-6-0 steam locomotives

Handley Page Hampden

Interest in the HP.52 by the Swedish for placing a potential order led to the HP.53 prototype, which was subsequently used as a testbed for a pair of 1,000 hp (750 kW) Napier Dagger VIII 24-cylinder H-block air-cooled inline engines.

Holden HK

161-cubic-inch (2.6-litre) and 186-cubic-inch (3.0-litre) inline six-cylinder engines were carried over from the HR series; however, a 307-cubic-inch (5.0-litre) Chevrolet V8 was now offered as an option on all models, this being the first time that any Holden had been available with a V8 engine.

Holden HX

A 3.3-litre inline six-cylinder engine was available, as were 4.2-litre and 5.0-litre V8s.

Honda RC143

In contrast to the RC142, the aircooled, four-stroke, twin cylinder engine of the RC143 was canted forward by 35° to improve cooling and increase air-flow to the newly designed Keihin carburettors.

Kawasaki A7 Avenger

While other manufactures had utilised the advantages of rotary disc valve induction on small single-cylinder machines, only Kawasaki and Bridgestone produced twin-cylinder machines.

LMS Sentinel 7192

It had an Abner Doble boiler combined with a 4-cylinder compound arrangement, but an order for an additional locomotive and three railcars to a similar was later cancelled.

Lotus-Ford Twin Cam

The cylinder head has hemispherical combustion chambers similar to that first used by Peugeot on their 1912 Grand Prix car and subsequently refined by Vittorio Jano in 1920s and 30's, as well as by Walter Hassan in 1940s and 50's, among other notable engineers who continually borrowed ideas from the aeronautics industry.

Mavis Mill

Driven by a 2000 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine by J & E Wood, 1909.

Max Immelmann

Both the E.3/15 machine earlier shared with Boelcke, and his own E.13/15 aircraft, both used to secure Immelmann's first five victories between them each had a seven-cylinder 80 horsepower Oberursel U.0 rotary engine for their power.

Mazda MX-3

Swapping of the 4-cylinder RS engines can be slightly more complicated than the V6 GS mainly due to ECU, wiring harness, and MAF combinations as well as motor mounts.

Menasco Unitwin 2-544

In mid-1935 Lockheed's chief engineer, Hall Hibbard, began discussing with Al Menasco, the president of the Menasco Motors Company in Burbank, the merits of coupling two Menasco C6S Super Buccaneer six-cylinder in-line engines mounted side-by-side, driving a single propeller.

Milliarium Aureum

The Miliarium Aureum seems to have been a marble column sheathed in gilded bronze: according to C. Hülsen, in 1835 a huge marble cylinder was found near the Temple of Saturn and it still had bronze hooks.

NASCAR Mexico T4 Series

The new "Mini Stock car", as it is called, is a Rear-wheel drive car (as opposed to the FWD Dodge Neon), and it features most of the elements of the larger stock cars (such as transmission, suspension, brakes, etc.), while keeping the 4-cylinder engine.

Nikasil

Suzuki currently uses a race-proven nickel phosphorus-silicon-carbide proprietary coating trademarked SCEM (Suzuki Composite Electro-chemical Material) to maximize cylinder size and improve heat dissipation, e.g., on the engine of the Suzuki TL1000S, V-Strom 650, TU250X and Hayabusa motorcycles.

Opposed four engines

a four-cylinder H engine in which two flat-twin engines are coupled together, one above the other

P-40 radar

The P-40 used the AT-T artillery tractor with tracked chassis, fitted with a 12-cylinder 4-stroke diesel engine with an output of 342 kW (465 hp) and producing a top speed of 55 km/h.

Paxman Hi-Dyne engine

Paxman subsequently supplied sixteen Hi-Dyne engines, based on the 6 cylinder RPHXL (contracts 55096-103 and 55721-8) to Hudswell Clarke for locomotives for Sierra Leone Government Railways.

Peugeot Type 183

The Peugeot Type 183 was a 2 litre six cylinder car produced between 1927 and 1931 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

PS Decoy

Decoy is powered by a 1905 Ransome Sims and Jefferies twin cylinder steam engine, which was salvaged and restored from Bunnings engineering workshops in Manjimup.

PSA TU engine

The PSA TU engine is a family of small four-cylinder engines used in the Peugeot and Citroën range of cars.

Pugmill

According to the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, a clay pug mill typically consists of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay body is placed.

Sobiesław Zasada

Zasada won the European Rally Champion title in 1966 with Steyr-Puch 650 (the smallest vehicle to achieve such victory) and in 1967 with 4-cylinder Porsche 912.

Stanisław Baranowski

In January 1978, while sleeping near the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, he was poisoned by gas escaping from a leaking cylinder.

Terpodion

The rotating cylinder is made from box wood (Buxus sempervirens), but the patent states it could be any material.

Tony Rudd

Rudd was involved in the development of the V16 and four-cylinder P25 cars and started to assume more prominence after the Rubery-Owen takeover of the team.

World Safari

Includes a motorcycle trip across Australia, living with Buddhist monks, selling life insurance on the side of the road, and getting lost in a two-cylinder DAF van while crossing the Sahara desert.


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