{"id":2244,"date":"2014-12-20T12:21:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T12:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2014-12-20T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T12:35:19","slug":"one-rod-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"One-rod engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/One-Rod-Engine_assembly-9-white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2245\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/One-Rod-Engine_assembly-9-white-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"One Rod Engine\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/One-Rod-Engine_assembly-9-white-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/One-Rod-Engine_assembly-9-white-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/One-Rod-Engine_assembly-9-white-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>One of the more interesting aspects of engine design are the ideas that don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>De Virgilio, father of the Aurelia V6, also tried the unusual. His One-rod engine, shown in this new drawing by Luigi De Virgilio, was for a vertical square-4 cylinder arrangement radically different from any other conventional automotive engine. Its best described as a pair of parallel twins, each coupled by an internal rocking arm, with a\u00a0single rod running\u00a0vertically to a very short crankshaft. It was a very compact engine to provide maximum interior space\u00a0in the upcoming Appia.For additional details, see\u00a0<em>Lancia and De Virgilio, At the Center<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting aspects of engine design are the ideas that don&#8217;t work. De Virgilio, father of the Aurelia V6, also tried the unusual. His One-rod engine, shown in this new drawing by Luigi De Virgilio, was for a vertical square-4 cylinder arrangement radically different from any other conventional automotive engine. Its best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}