A flat-six engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-six, is a six-cylinder piston engine with three cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft...
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The Porsche flat-six engine series is a line of mechanically similar, naturally aspirated and sometimes turbocharged, flat-six boxer engines, produced by...
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than straight engines (for engines with fewer than six cylinders) and V engines (for engines with six or more cylinders). Flat engines are more common...
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The Subaru six-cylinder engines are a series of flat-6 engines manufactured by Subaru, made in three distinct generations. The ER27, derived from the...
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A flat-twelve engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-twelve, is a twelve-cylinder piston engine with six cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft...
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A flat-four engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-four engine or boxer engine, is a four-cylinder piston engine with two banks of cylinders lying...
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A flat-eight engine, also called a horizontally-opposed eight, is an eight-cylinder piston engine with two banks of four inline cylinders, one on each...
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The straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight...
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configuration as used by most flat engines with six cylinders or less. The Coventry Climax FWMW was a prototype flat-sixteen engine designed between 1963 and...
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Honda Valkyrie (redirect from Honda flat six)
feature a V-twin engine. The idea of an American cruiser styled motorcycle featuring a flat six engine came from Josef Boyd. The Valkyrie engine is a 1,520...
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Six flats may refer to: G-flat major, a major musical key with six flats E-flat minor, a minor musical key with six flats Flat-six engine, a type of piston...
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sports cars like the Porsche 911 use flat-six engines instead of V6 engines, due to their near perfect primary engine balance and lower centre of gravity...
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family of Modular Engines to replace the Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 flat-six engine. This development program investigated flat engines with between two and...
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Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair...
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Porsche 911 (992) (category Cars powered by boxer engines)
manual, respectively. Both models are powered by a 3.0-litre twin-turbo flat-six engine, which in the Targa 4 is rated at 283 kW (380 hp; 385 PS) and 450 N⋅m...
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the 1986–1988 Porsche 959, which used sequential twin-turbos on its flat-six engine. Serial turbocharging is where the turbochargers are connected in series...
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straight-six engines, due to the shorter length of a flat-six engine. This section is an introduction to the balancing of two steam engines connected...
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Ferrari flat-12 engine family is a series of flat-12 DOHC petrol engines produced by Ferrari from 1964 to 1996. The first racing Ferrari flat-12, the...
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Porsche 914 (category Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles)
available as a targa-topped two-seat roadster powered by either a flat-4 or flat-six engine. By the late 1960s, both Volkswagen and Porsche were in need of...
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Porsche 911 GT2 (category Rear-engined vehicles)
Configuration: Air-cooled twin-turbocharged 2 valves per cylinder Porsche flat-six engine Displacement: 3,600 cc (3.6 L; 219.7 cu in) Bore × stroke: 100 mm (3...
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Wards 10 Best Engines is an annual list of the ten "best" automobile engines available in the U.S. market, that are selected by Wards AutoWorld magazine...
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Porsche 911 (991) (category Cars powered by boxer engines)
livery and a 436 PS (321 kW; 430 hp) naturally aspirated 3.8-liter flat-six engine available exclusively with a manual transmission. It also included...
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Porsche 911 GT3 (category Rear-engined vehicles)
dry sump" (e.g. wet-sump) flat-six engine used in the water-cooled 996 Carrera engine introduced in MY1999. The 996 GT engine is naturally aspirated and...
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engines include: Flat-2, commonly called "flat-twin" Flat-4 Flat-6 Flat-8 Flat-10 Flat-12 Flat-16 W engines have the cylinders in a configuration in which the...
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Porsche 911 (category Rear-engined vehicles)
performance rear-engined sports car introduced in September 1964 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a rear-mounted flat-six engine and originally...
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Aero L-60 Brigadýr (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
thoroughly redesigned and the second improved prototype, with M-208B flat-six engine, flew on June 8, 1954. The aircraft's configuration bears a strong...
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flat-eight engines of differing displacements over the course of many years. They were mainly used in Porsche's racing cars. The first Porsche flat-eight...
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Honda Gold Wing (category Motorcycles powered by flat engines)
in 1975 with a 999 cc (61.0 cu in) flat-four engine; by 2001, this had grown to a 1,832 cc (111.8 cu in) flat-six. The 2012 model had anti-lock braking...
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An H engine is a piston engine comprising two separate flat engines (complete with separate crankshafts), most often geared to a common output shaft. The...
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Porsche 911 (996) (category Cars powered by boxer engines)
four-wheel-drive system and a 3.6-litre, twin-turbocharged and intercooled flat-six engine generating a maximum power output of 309 kW (420 PS; 414 hp), making...
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