Sentence examples for iron engine from inspiring English sources

Changing the iron engine block to aluminum would be a start.

A silver lining from that expensive experiment was Chrysler's fateful decision to transfer the dimensions of its extra-thick aluminum crankcase to the iron engine.

The substitution of cast iron engine blocks by light metal components yields significant weight savings.

In particular, grey cast iron engine blocks, which are very heavy components in vehicles, have been replaced by aluminum-silicon hypoeutectic alloys in order to reduce emissions and fuel consumption.

It took a year for the survivors to cover the 400km to Real del Monte, dragging their great iron engines by mule or rope through jungles and over mountains.

With an empty weight of 4,140 pounds (the Hemi's cast-iron engine block doesn't help), the Challenger is some 300 pounds heavier than a Magnum and about 600 pounds more than a Mustang.

"What resulted," DeLorean said, "was a relatively large, noisy, top-heavy combination of aluminum and iron, which cost far too much to build, looked like it had been taken off a 1920 farm tractor and weighed more than the cast-iron engine Chevy had proposed, or the foreign-built 4-cylinder engine the Ford Pinto was to use".

At the same time, the British made do with 4-speeds, rear drum brakes, cast-iron pushrod engines and leaky convertible tops that seemed to have been engineered by the Marquis de Sade.

The Warrior-class design used many well-proven technologies that had been used in ocean-going ships for years, including her iron hull, steam engine, and screw propeller; only her wrought-iron armour was a major technological advance.

SS American was a steel-hulled, single propeller cargo ship built at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company and the Hawaiian sugar trade.

That inequity is especially grating to Matti Holtzberg, a New Jersey engineer who has spent 30 years trying to send iron and aluminum engines the way of the woolly mammoth.