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  2. Rolls-Royce Crecy - Wikipedia

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    The sleeves had a stroke of 30% of the piston travel at 1.950 in (49.5 mm) and operated 15 degrees in advance of the crankshaft. [5] The Crecy sleeve valves were of similar construction but differed in their operation compared to the rotary sleeve valve design that was pioneered by Roy Fedden , and used successfully for the first time in an ...

  3. List of discontinued Volkswagen Group petrol engines

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    The spark-ignition petrol (gasoline) engines listed below were formerly used in various marques of automobiles and commercial vehicles of the German automotive business Volkswagen Group [1] and also in Volkswagen Industrial Motor applications, but are now discontinued.

  4. List of Volkswagen Group petrol engines - Wikipedia

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    The EA211 engines are a completely new four-cylinder turbocharged and direct-injection TSI engines. Compared to its predecessor, the EA211 series is significantly more compact, with installation length 50 mm (2.0 in) shorter, thus offering more interior space.

  5. Two-stroke engine - Wikipedia

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    Animation of a two-stroke engine. A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston (one up and one down movement) in one revolution of the crankshaft in contrast to a four-stroke engine which requires four strokes of the piston in two crankshaft revolutions to complete a power cycle.

  6. Joseph Day (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    In fact there was at least one valve in Joseph Day's original design, a simple check valve in the inlet port communicating directly with the crankcase, where you would probably find a reed valve on a modern two stroke. His patent No.6,410 of 1891/2 covered variants with a piston controlled transfer port or an additional check valve in the crown ...

  7. Beta (motorcycle manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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    RR race edition bikes gained the new Sachs closed cartridge forks. Beta also introduced lithium-ion batteries, while the RR-S models became electric start only with the option of an add-on kick starter. 2019 saw the introduction of the carburetor equipped 200 to the RR 2-stroke line. All models of the RR line 200, 250 and 300 gained electric start.

  8. Volkswagen EA211 engine - Wikipedia

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    The Volkswagen EA211 engine (EA = development order), also called modular gasoline engine kit, is a family of inline-three and inline-four petrol engines with variable valve timing developed by Volkswagen Group in 2011. [1]

  9. Crossplane - Wikipedia

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    Four stroke crossplane V8 engines have even 90 degree ignition intervals, but unevenly spaced firing patterns within each cylinder bank. The firing order on the L eft and Right banks are generally L R LL R L RR or R L RR L R LL , with each 'L' or 'R' ignition being separated by 90° crank rotation for a total of 720° for eight ignitions.