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1.6l i-dtec honda engine

The new 1.6L i-DTEC Honda engine

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Lightest Honda Diesel Engine Honda’s new 1.6-liter i-DTEC is comprised of an aluminium cylinder head joined to an open deck aluminium block. It is weighing 47 kg less than Honda’s 2.2-liter i-DTEC engine. All the individual components have been redesigned to minimize their weight and size and advanced production techniques have helped reduce weight even further. […]

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Manufacturing of a 13L Volvo Truck engine

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The Volvo Group’s plant in Skövde produces some 300 engines a day. The heavy-duty 13- and 16-liters engines are delivered to assembly plants where they are installed in trucks that are sold in Europe and the rest of the world. The following pictures shows the complicated process that transforms sand and scrap metal into advanced

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