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Artist rendering of a NASCAR restrictor plate. A restrictor plate or air restrictor is a device installed at the intake of an engine to limit its power. This kind of system is occasionally used in road vehicles (e.g., motorcycles) for insurance purposes, but mainly in automobile racing, to limit top speed to provide equal level of competition, and to lower costs; insurance purposes have also ...
The engine has a displacement of 2.0 L; 121.9 cu in (1,998 cc) with a bore and a stroke of 3.38 in × 3.38 in (86 mm × 86 mm). [2] The compression ratio of the engine is 10.5:1. [2] The 2.0 L engine was offered by Dodge in the Dodge Caliber. Outside North America, the 2.0 was the base engine for the 2007 Chrysler Sebring and 2008 Dodge Avenger.
This appeared in the Mondeo in 2003 and is today available on the 2.0 L engine as well. The SCi engines were designed at Ford's Cologne facility and assembled in Valencia, Spain. The SCi engine is paired with a specially designed six-speed manual transmission. European 1.8 L and 2.0 L Duratec HE engines are built at the Valencia Engine Plant in ...
Engine balance refers to how the inertial forces produced by moving parts in an internal combustion engine or steam engine are neutralised with counterweights and balance shafts, to prevent unpleasant and potentially damaging vibration. The strongest inertial forces occur at crankshaft speed (first-order forces) and balance is mandatory, while ...
The MZR generation includes gasoline and diesel powered engines ranging in displacements from 1.3 L to 2.5 L. All gasoline-powered MZR engines feature an all-aluminum block construction with iron cylinder liners. The diesel MZR-CD engines use a cast-iron block (virtually identical to the Mazda F engine) and an aluminum cylinder head.
The engine is a 2.0 litres (1,950 cc) turbo-diesel cast aluminum block, inline four-cylinder with balancing shafts. [3] It has a single turbo and its cylinder walls are lined with slippery Nanoslide, an iron-carbon coating that cuts friction. In the 200-configuration it produces 110 kW (150 PS; 148 hp) at 4,500 rpm with peak torque of 320 N⋅m ...
The CVH was enlarged to 1.9 L for the 1986 model year North American Escort. Bore and stroke are 82 mm × 88 mm (3.23 in × 3.46 in). This stroke length was later used in the 2.0 L CVH engine, and again in the Zeta engine which replaced it. The long stroke necessitated a raised engine block deck, a design also shared with later units.
These limiters may also retard the ignition timing. If using a soft-cut rev limiter, the engine will start to cut fuel or retard ignition timing before the set RPM until it slowly reaches it and remains there. If the engine over-revs anyway, a soft-cut limiter may progressively shut off each cylinder one by one until engine RPMs drop to safe ...