Sentence examples for overhead cam from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of internal combustion engine design which has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder head and has the camshaft(s) up above the valves too.
The location of camshafts for most automotive applications is overhead overhead cam (OHC) or dual overhead cam (DOHC).
Within a year, Mr. Taglioni had fashioned a tiny but swift 98-cubic-centimeter overhead cam engine that powered a bike he called the Marianna.
The dynamic behavior of overhead cam mechanisms, commonly used in automotive applications, is strongly influenced by the Coulomb friction at the rocker arm pivot.
With a supercharged dual overhead cam four-valve engine rated at 320 horsepower, the Duesenberg SJ was the American-made performance champion of its day.
The LX and EX-L are both powered by a carryover 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine with a single overhead cam and 16 valves.
The two-door Stratus and Sebring have a 2.4-liter in-line four cylinder with a single overhead cam (142 horsepower) or a 3-liter, single-cam V-6 (200 horsepower).
It carries the same horsepower rating as the most muscular Mustang offered in 1998 — the SVT Cobra with a 4.6-liter, dual-overhead cam, 32-valve V-8 that seemed exotic at the time.
The Freelander has a smooth dual-overhead cam V6 engine that cranks out 175 hp.
But to transform this car into the DB2, the car you see here and below, Brown needed a better engine and proceeded to buy Lagonda in 1947 because he wanted that company's twin-overhead cam technology.
2.8-liter, four-cylinder, double-overhead cam, 16-valve engine.
Powertrain: 3.3-liter dual-overhead cam, 24-valve V6 with variable valve timing; five-speed automatic; front-wheel drive.
