Sentences with phrase «second oldest engine»

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Although 44 - years - old in 1970 «Black Jack» was still as quick as ever, having won the season - opening race in South Africa and been running second in Spain before his engine failed.

All car's I've had (second hand and between 15 - 30 years old) have always had a greasy veil over engine components.

Sometimes when starting the engine, there's a whistling or whining sound for several seconds, similar to an old style kettle or steam engine pressure valve letting off steam but oscillating.

The more muscular V - 6 knocks about a second off the 0 - to -60-mph time (now estimated at just under eight seconds) but matches the fuel economy of the old engine.

I have an old bike with an oil cooled engine with the nerve - shredding feature of producing a pronounced knocking noise (presumably a rod knock) for a few seconds when you start it after an oil change.

Mercedes quotes an estimated 0 - 60 mph time of 5.7 - seconds, which is 0.3 seconds quicker than the estimate with the old engine.

I heard a rumor about dodge running the engine dry for a few seconds during an oil change for my old truck.

I have an old car (but with electronic injection) that predates by far start / stop systems which are used nowadays to save fuel (turning off the engine brings savings after 3 - 5 seconds, see Calculating...

Being about 400 pounds lighter, the F - Type is 0.4 second quicker to 60 mph than the older, full - size model, which uses the same engine but is handicapped by a less energetic six - speed automatic transmission.

The GT3 RS's naturally aspirated 4 - litre flat - six is carried over from the previous - generation car (and the current GT3), with power increasing by 20bhp to 513bhp at 8450rpm (200rpm higher than its predecessor) and torque rising by 7 lb ft to 346 lb ft.. There's a new titanium exhaust with 91 mm diameter pipes, a revised intake system and a new engine management system that account for the slightest of gains in the sprints (at 3.2 seconds it's a tenth quicker than the old car to 62mph) but will have a bigger impact on the car's as - yet - undisclosed Nürburgring lap time.

> Performance and 0 - 60 time - Despite engine downsizing the V60 Polestar has knocked two tenths of a second from its old 0 - 62mph time, but doesn't sound as good.

The old SQ5 TDI continually shocked and stunned with its seemingly endless wave of torque, but the more frantic petrol engine in the second - generation car needs to be worked much harder for the same returns.

Topping the range is the xDrive25i at $ 59,900 plus ORCs (unchanged from the old xDrive28i), packing a 170kW / 350Nm 2.0 - litre turbo - petrol engine from the MINI JCW and accelerates 0 - 100 km / h in 6.5 seconds.

So, potentially stickier tyre compounds aside, how has the new Type R managed to be nearly seven seconds faster than the old car, despite only having a 10bhp increase from its 2.0 - litre engine?

Don't think Ford's premier gasoline engine is getting the shaft — the 3.5 - liter EcoBoost entered its second generation in 2017, making it just under a year old.

The gas engine itself is mostly unchanged, but the two separate stages of the catalytic converter were closely merged next to the engine and the old second stage of the catalytic converter was replaced with Honda's new first - time exhaust heat recovery system module.

With 206kW of power and 350Nm of torque on tap from its Golf R - derived 2.0 - litre turbo - petrol engine (all but matching the 220kW 3.6 - litre V6 in the heavier old R36, which was on sale for $ 66,990 until 2010), the top - shelf Passat sedan is claimed to sprint to 100km / h in 5.5 seconds, while the $ 2000 - pricier wagon is two - tenths slower.

Black carbon — a dangerous pollutant emitted by old, dirty diesel engines like school buses — is thought to be the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.