- Industry: Automotive
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A small electric motor that initially turns the engine during start-up.
Industry:Automotive
A specialized type of unibody construction consisting of thin, carefully joined panels that provide extreme rigidity and strength. Usually used for sports cars and race cars.
Industry:Automotive
A partial frame that is sometimes bolted to the body of unibody vehicles. A sub-frame can be used to support the engine, transmission and front suspension instead of having these components connect directly to the main body structure.
Industry:Automotive
A suspension design that uses multiple links to respond more precisely to the terrain and control wheel movement.
Industry:Automotive
A cone or sleeve friction device that ensures that the gears in a transmission are rotating at the same speed before they are engaged. This helps reduce gear grinding when shifting.
Industry:Automotive
By using more than the traditional one intake and one exhaust valve (two per cylinder), multiple valves (usually four per cylinder) increase the flow of the fuel/air mixture into the engine and exhaust gases out of the engine. It also allows a more central location of the spark plug for more uniform combustion.
Industry:Automotive
An instrument for measuring and indicating the speed at which the engine crankshaft is turning, as measured in revolutions per minute (rpm).
Industry:Automotive
Aspiration means breathing. An internal combustion engine that is neither turbocharged nor supercharged. Natural aspiration gives less power than either turbo- or supercharged engines of the same engine displacement, but generally operates with better fuel efficiency.
Industry:Automotive
Pieces of metal that become progressively thicker as they get closer to the passenger compartment in order to absorb the force of an impact.
Industry:Automotive
An instrument that measures and registers the miles and tenths of miles the vehicle has been driven.
Industry:Automotive
