How to Use camshaft in a Sentence

camshaft

noun

• To reduce the height of the engine, the cam cover now incorporates the upper camshaft bearing.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 20 May 2021
• Connecting rods and pistons are forged, and both crankshaft and camshaft are made from billet steel.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2020
• The driver's-side exhaust manifold has been updated, too, and the camshaft timing on the exhaust side has been revised.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Sep. 2022
• The turbo is bigger than the usual one found on an S60, and Polestar also fitted new conrods, camshafts, and a larger air intake and fuel pump to feed it.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2017
• Reducing the number of camshafts and cam drives also reduces friction.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2018
• In addition, the camshaft and crankshaft pulleys, fuel injectors and coil packs prove that this was in fact a working power plant at one point.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2023
• Direct injection is done with a common rail design with a high-pressure fuel pump powered by the camshaft.
  — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2012
• Each cylinder head is fitted with a single overhead camshaft that operates 32 valves—four per cylinder, all of them exhaust valves.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• The Porsche's problem will later be diagnosed as a nut that backed off the end of the right-bank camshaft, shearing a drive tooth, allowing the cam to stop turning altogether, and bending two valves.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
• But the internal motor is updated with pistons, rods, crankshaft and camshaft.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2020
• This choice replaces the conventional engine valve train—valves, seats, guides, seals, springs, rockers, camshaft, bearings, timing chain, and oil lubrication—with a simple set of holes in the cylinder wall.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2023
• There are dozens of sensors, measuring such things as throttle opening, engine rpm, air and coolant temperature, crankshaft and camshaft position, and road speed.
  — Michael Austin, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2018
• Six individual cylinder heads are clamped between the cylinder barrels and camshaft housings.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• The single-overhead-camshaft cylinder heads are three-valve, dual-plug designs that breathe well enough for adequate cruiser torque and power, making the midsize 750cc motor a good fit for its intended market.
  — Joe Michaud, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Bolted between its fenders is a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 with so many internal improvements versus its predecessor that the only thing the two engines share is a camshaft.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2023
• Instead, each valve has an electric actuator that works a mini-camshaft, opening and closing each valve independently from the others.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
• The overhead cam design, meaning the camshaft is inside the cylinder head instead of the engine block, provided numerous performance and efficiency improvements as well as much longer intervals between oil changes.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2020
• Dodge is also touting its new fuel saving technology that incorporates cylinder deactivation and variable camshaft timing to save gas.
  — Imad Khan, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024