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  • Engine Overheating or Runs Hot

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    Engine Overheating or Runs Hot

    Engine Overheating or Runs Hot help Engine Overheating Repair Inside your car's engine, thousands of controlled explosions called combustion events occur. These explosions are ...

  • Engine Service Light Trouble Codes

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    Engine Service Light Trouble Codes

    Engine Service Light Trouble Codes How to Check for Trouble Codes If you see a "check engine" or a "service engine soon" light in your instrument cluster, your car has stored a ...

  • Engine Tune-up

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    Basic Car Engine Tune-up Most vehicles have ignition systems and a throttle bore. The enigne's ignition system is the component that ignites the fuel air mixture inside the ...

  • Engine Windage

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    Engine Windage

    Engine Windage Explained Windage is a force created on an object by friction when there is relative movement between air and the object. There are two causes of windage: the ...

  • Exhaust Gas

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    Exhaust Gas

    Exhaust Gas Explained Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline/petrol, diesel fuel, fuel oil or coal. According to ...

  • Exhaust manifold

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    Exhaust manifold

    Exhaust manifold In automotive engineering, an exhaust manifold collects the exhaust gases from multiple cylinders into one pipe. The word manifold comes from the Old English ...

  • Exhaust manifold Checking hot-spot valve

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    Exhaust manifold Checking hot-spot valve

    Checking the operation of the hot-spot valve Guide to checking the operation of the hot-spot valve between inlet and exhaust manifold on older cars. Some older car may have ...

  • Exhaust Silencer (Muffler)

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    Exhaust Silencer (Muffler)

    Exhaust Silencer (Muffler) A muffler (or silencer in British English) is a device for reducing the amount of noise emitted by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. ...

  • Expansion tank

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    Expansion tank

    Expansion tank An expansion tank is also used in the cooling system of most internal combustion engines, to allow the antifreeze and air in the system to expand with rising ...

  • F4 Front-engine, four-wheel-drive

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    F4 Front-engine, four-wheel-drive

    Automotive (F4) Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout In automotive design, an F4, or Front-engine, Four-wheel-drive layout places the internal combustion engine at the front of ...

  • Ferrari ECU upgrades

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    Ferrari ECU upgrades

    ECU Remapping for Ferrari Guide to possible BHP and Torgue improvement, on Ferrari cars with ECU remapping or upgrade. Model Variant Original BHP Tuning Performance 348 3.4 300 ...

  • Ferrari Wheel Fitment Guide

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    Ferrari Wheel Fitment Guide

    Ferrari Wheel Fitment Sizes Guide PCD & Offsets Model P.C.D. ET C.B. Ferrari 308 5 x 108 N / I N / I Ferrari 324 5 x 108 N / I 67 Ferrari 348 (Before 1995) 5 x 108 N / I 43 ...

  • Ferrari-Maserati F136 engine (2002-)

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    Ferrari-Maserati F136 engine (2002-)

    Ferrari-Maserati F136 engine Make Ferrari and Maserati ( Fiat group ) Years of production Since 2002 Class Supercar Engines Assembly plant Ferrari factory in Maranello Fuel ...

  • Ferrari-Maserati F140 engine (2002-)

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    Ferrari-Maserati F140 engine (2002-)

    F140 Ferrari-Maserati engine Make Ferrari - Maserati Years of production Since 2002 Class Performance Engine Assembly plant (s) Ferrari factory in Maranello Energy Gasoline ...

  • FF Front-wheel-drive

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    FF Front-wheel-drive

    Car Front-wheel-drive (FF) explained FF layout Front-wheel-drive layouts are those in which the front wheels of the vehicle are driven. The most popular layout used in cars today ...

  • Fiat 1.3 MultiJet Series 2 engine (2009-)

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    Fiat 1.3 MultiJet Series 2 engine (2009-)

    Fiat 1.3 MultiJet Series II SDE Engine The Fiat 1.3 MultiJet engine is a turbocharged thermal engine for diesel cars comprising four cylinders in line, equipped with the ...

  • FIAT 100 engine (1955 to 2000)

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    FIAT 100 engine (1955 to 2000)

    FIAT 100 engine range 1955 to 2000 The Fiat "100 series" engines have been of 4-stroke engines fueled by petrol with 4 cylinders in line.Built from 1955 to 2000. History The Fiat ...

  • Fiat 124 series engine (1966-1999)

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    Fiat 124 series engine (1966-1999)

    Fiat 124 series engine Manufacturer Fiat / Fiat Automóveis (Brazil) Production 1966–1999 Configuration OHV 2-valve inline-four SOHC 2-valve inline-four SOHC diesel 2-valve ...