The Slant Four is a type of car engine manufactured by Vauxhall Motors. Originating in 1966, it was one of the first production overhead camshaft designs to use a rubber toothed belt to drive the camshaft from the crankshaft (an honor shared with the 1966 Pontiac OHC Six), a method used on almost all modern engines. A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... An engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. ... Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Rubber is an elastic hydrocarbon polymer which occurs as a milky emulsion (known as latex) in the sap of a number of plants but can also be produced synthetically. ... Timing belt A timing belt, timing chain or cam belt is a part of an internal combustion engine that controls the timing of the engines valves. ... The camshaft is an apparatus used in piston engines to operate poppet valves. ... Crankshaft Continental engine marine crankshafts, 1942 Crankshaft is also the name of a comic strip about an old, curmudgeonly bus driver. ...

The engine features four inline cylinders inclined at an angle of approximately 45 degrees (hence the name), and this is because the engine was developed by taking a V8 design from General Motors in the US and cutting it in half. There is a single overhead camshaft operating two valves per cylinder. The block and crossflow head are both of cast iron. The engine makes good use of the cylinder inclination to lower the overall height of the engine, which allowed for more aerodynamic designs of cars to be achieved by lowering the bonnet line. It also means most of the engine is very easy to access for maintenance, with the exception of the exhaust manifold, which is "underneath" the slanted cylinders. A piston and cylinder from a steam engine A cylinder in an internal combustion engine is the space within which a piston travels. ... The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... poppet valve A poppet valve is the type of valve system used in most piston engines, used to seal the intake and exhaust ports. ... A crossflow cylinder head is a cylinder head that features the intake and exhaust ports on opposite sides. ... Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but can mean any of a group of iron-based alloys containing more than 2% carbon (alloys with less carbon are carbon steel by definition). ... Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with the study of gas flows, first analysed by George Cayley in the 1800s. ... The hood (US) or bonnet (UK) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. ...

The first car to use the engine was the 1967 Victor, at a capacity of 1600 cc. Later variants were produced with capacities of 1800, 2000 and 2300 cc, and Blydenstein racing developed a long stroke version with a capacity of 2600 cc, in which form is could produce almost 250 bhp (186 kW). The block is immensely strong and could handle huge increases of power without modification. The larger capacities are renowned for their immense torque (having such large pistons) but a downside of this is that they are not very smooth running or high-revving. The Vauxhall Victor was a medium/large model produced by Vauxhall Motors, the British subsidiary of General Motors from 1957 to 1976, when it was renamed as the VX Series and continued till 1978, when it was replaced by the Carlton, which was based on the German Opel Rekord D... In physics, torque can be thought of informally as rotational force. Torque is measured in units of newton metres, and its symbol is Ï„. The concept of torque, also called moment or couple, originated with the work of Archimedes on levers. ...

The design became the basis for the Lotus 2.0 and 2.2 engines used in a wide variety of sports cars, but while the basic block was copied almost unchanged, it was cast in aluminium alloy instead of iron, which made it considerably lighter. The Lotus engine also used a different cylinder head of light alloy, featuring double overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. Vauxhall also developed a 16-valve head for the engine in the late 1970s, which was used on the Chevette HS, but this design suffered a number of problems in use, and the Lotus head was much better - so much so that for the rally cars, Vauxhall substituted the Lotus head, breaking the rules and getting themselves disqualified for one of the rallying seasons. Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports cars and racing cars based in East Anglia and formed as Lotus Engineering Ltd. ... Honda NSX sports car A sports car is a type of automobile designed for sporting performance. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... The cylinder head from a GMC van. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The Chevette is a model of car manufactured by Vauxhall in the UK from 1975 to 1983. ... Rallying (international) or rally racing (US) is a form of automobile racing that takes place on public roads with modified production or specially built road cars. ...

The engine was widely used in many models of car, and was also developed into a marine engine for boats and was popular with amateurs due to its great strength, tunability and simplicity. The engine was still being manufactured well into the 1980s for the Bedford CF Van, and many of them are still in daily use. Lobster boat A boat is a watercraft, usually smaller than most ships. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...