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    The straight-eight engine or inline-eight engine (often abbreviated as I8) is an eight-cylinder internal combustion engine with all eight cylinders mounted...
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    The straight engine (also called inline engine) is a configuration of multi-cylinder piston engine where all of the cylinders are arranged in a single...
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  • Thumbnail for Buick straight-8 engine
    automobile makers, Buick adopted the straight-eight engine in 1931 as a more powerful alternative to the previous engines. Unlike most other car makers at...
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    production in the United States with a straight-eight engine. Officially known as the Duesenberg Straight Eight, the Model A was first shown in late 1920...
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  • Thumbnail for Daimler Straight-Eight engines
    Daimler Straight-Eight engines were eight-cylinder in-line petrol engines made by the Daimler Company to power the largest and most expensive cars in...
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  • most engines with eight cylinders or more use a V engine layout. However, there are various exceptions to this, such as the straight-eight engines used...
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    A straight-four engine (also referred to as an inline-four engine) is a four-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common...
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  • Thumbnail for Overhead camshaft engine
    are two camshafts for a straight engine and a total of four camshafts for a V engine or a flat engine. A V engine or flat engine requires four camshafts...
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  • Thumbnail for Pontiac straight-8 engine
    The Pontiac straight-8 engine is an inline eight-cylinder automobile engine produced by Pontiac from 1933 to 1954. Introduced in the fall of 1932 for...
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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 line...
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  • The Duesenberg straight-8 engine was produced from 1921 to 1937 and sold in Duesenberg automobiles. Fred and August Duesenberg got their start building...
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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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    A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Oldsmobile straight-8 engine
    straight eights have the distributor mounted on the cylinder head whereas the later 257.1 engine has it mounted down on the left side of the engine....
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    engine, the 300 SLR's M 196 S engine is a direct-injected 3-litre straight-eight engine (but with a 78 mm bore and stroke); its rated power is 302 PS (222 kW)...
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    A straight-twin engine, also known as an inline-twin, vertical-twin, or parallel-twin, is a two-cylinder piston engine whose cylinders are arranged in...
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    beginning, it was introduced as a sport luxury model, using the Straight Eight engine from the Chrysler New Yorker which was more formal, and the Imperial...
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  • reducing the engine size by roughly half, Daimler engineers soon managed to get more power from the supercharged Straight-8 M25 engine than the maximum...
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    model, with a new 7.3-litre straight-eight engine to replace the 5.9-litre unit used in the previous model. This new engine could produce 115–160 metric...
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  • August Duesenberg in 1920. The company is known for popularizing the straight-eight engine and four-wheel hydraulic brakes. A Duesenberg car was the first...
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  • This pair of cars has been described as "the complete lemon". The straight eight engine was subject to bearing failure. The name was changed to Vortic and...
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  • Thumbnail for Mercedes-Benz M196 engine
    The Mercedes-Benz M196 engine is a naturally-aspirated, straight-8, racing engine, designed, developed, and produced by Daimler-Benz; and used in both...
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    Twenty-seven straight-six engine, and the long-wheelbase DE 36, the last Daimler Straight-Eight, with the Thirty-six straight-eight engine. Daimler DEs...
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  • Thumbnail for Packard Super Eight
    two models shared most mechanical components including the 160 HP straight Eight engine and continued to be regarded as the Senior Packard. After 1942,...
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    offering of the 96. All cars in this series were powered by the straight eight engine. Also gone in this shortened model year was the ultra rare 4-door...
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    was installed with the largest engine available in the top-level Roadmaster, which was the Fireball Straight-eight engine that necessitated the long 126...
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    Chrysler introduced their first straight eight engine for the Chrysler Imperial, and offered it in the Chrysler Eight Series CD. It borrowed appearance...
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    "Super Eight" due to the engravement on the grille while all Buick's since 1931 were all installed with the Buick Straight-8 engine with varying engine displacement...
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  • Thumbnail for Pontiac straight-6 engine
    The Pontiac straight-6 engine is a family of inline-six cylinder automobile engines produced by the Pontiac Division of General Motors Corporation in...
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  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce B range engines
    range engines are still in use. The original MOD specification called for the use of OMD-110 oil, which has a civilian equivalent rating of a straight 30W...
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