What types of engines are there and what are the differences?

Question

Like V, GT, CTS, GT, those are engines right name then the engine like cadillac CTS anyway What types of engines are there and what are the differences? most popular engines and the cars they are in THANK YOU SO MUCH

Answer 1

No.  Those (GT, CTS, etc) are just car models.  

There are 3 basic engine design out there

(1) gasoline piston engine

(2) diesel engine

(3) rotary engine

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Most cars are gasoline piston engines.  They are further  classified as

I (inline)

V (vee design)

or sometime opposed.

Some engines have turbochargers or superchargers.  They make the engine work like bigger engine - by stuff it with more air and fuel.  

Of course with or without the turbo/super charger - bigger engine usually have more power (but suffer from bad MPG)

Good Luck...

Answer 2

cts, v, and gt are car names and trims.  some engines include 4 cylinder, V6, flat 6, straight 6, V8, V10, V12, and V16.

Answer 3

We shall keep it simple, and only include include engines that you can run on derivetives of crude oil:

SI IC engines (petrol, paraffin, LPG)

CI IC engines (diesel)

Jet engines

Both IC engines can be piston engines or rotary (wankel).

The most common car engine is a flat four 4stroke SI IC engine (petrol). Four cylinders are lined up and attached to a crankshaft. For every two turns of the crankshaft (or four cylinder strokes), each piston fires once.

Also common in cars are flat four 4stroke CI IC engines (diesel engines).

Other types of and layouts for cylinder engines include:

1cyl 2/ (small motorcycles and scooters)

flat3 4/ (aygo)

HO4 4/ (VW beetles and campers)

flat6 4/ (from here on in, we're talking super cars and large machinery)

V6 4/

V8 4/

V10 4/

V12 4/

Radial 4/ (prop driven aircraft)

A 2/ (two-stroke) fires once for every turn of the crank shaft.

A flat or in-line engine has all of the cylinders in a row

An HO (horizontally opposed) engine has cylinders on both sides of the crankshaft, exactly opposite each other.

A V engine has two rows of cylinders in a V-shape

A radial engine has the cylinders arranged in a radial pattern around the crankshaft

Also made by mazda are the wankel engines. These have no cylinders, but a rotating central triangular structure instead. They achieve much higher revs and a higher power/weight value.

Jet engines are only really used on aircraft, as they are difficult to attach to a propshaft.