Sentence examples for weight of the engine from inspiring English sources
Chrysler and G.M. promoted front-drive as safer, because the weight of the engine and transmission over the drive wheels improves traction on slippery surfaces.
In general, rear-engine cars have not found favor because the weight of the engine at the extreme back end results in less-than-ideal handling.
"It's much easier to do with a rear-wheel-drive car," Mr. Potter said, "because you have the entire rear axle assembly, and rear suspension back there offsetting the weight of the engine up front.
It uses composites to reduce the weight of the engine.Despite demands from airlines for better fuel consumption, the market for the existing narrow-body jets is booming again as airline profits recover and fleets age.
In order to reduce weight of the engine block and further more reduce the emissions thermal spray coatings are options to manufacture wear resistant and low-friction cylinder running surfaces.
But it would have to be an awfully big cylinder, and the pistons very heavy, and it would get to the point where the weight of the engine would slow down the vehicle the bigger and more powerful you try to make it," Brookwood says.
The weight of the engines and body of the flier sits lower than the rotors to create a pendulum effect that discourages the contraption from tipping upside down and creating what might be called the lawn dart effect.
The most significant limiting factor at this point is not the weight of the engines, or the design of the aircraft, but rather it is the batteries.
The bulk and weight of the steam engine suggested its being mounted on a railway.
Wagons proudly bearing the name of Spain's high-speed Alvia line lay tangled together, shunted on top of one another by the weight of the rear engine which had ploughed on after the front carriages sped off the lines on a sharp curve on the city's outskirts.
Although twice as powerful as the Alpine, the Tiger is only about twenty per cent heavier, but the extra weight of the larger engine required some minor suspension modifications.
