An engine arrangement includes a first engine unit, a second engine unit and at least one member for fastening the second engine unit to the first engine unit. The first unit and the second unit include fluid ports for achieving a fluid flow between the first and second unit. The engine arrangement further includes a valve for opening and closing at least one of the fluid ports and the fastening member is moveably arranged relative to the first unit and second unit and is arranged to act on the valve.

A vehicle engine 2 comprises an exhaust system having an exhaust manifold 12 and an exhaust purification device 18. The exhaust manifold 12 is disposed at a predetermined distance from a dash panel 106 constituting a body of the vehicle 100, the exhaust purification device 18 is disposed in a position overlapping a floor tunnel region 114, formed by a floor tunnel of the body, and is disposed below the exhaust manifold 12 and to one side of the center of the engine 2 in the cylinder-array direction, as viewed from the longitudinal direction of the vehicle 100. An exhaust purification device introduction passage 17 connecting the exhaust manifold 12 and the exhaust purification device 18 is disposed on the other side of the center of the exhaust manifold 12 in the cylinder-array direction, and extends below the exhaust manifold 12 to be connected to the exhaust purification device 18.

A connection passage 63 is provided to connect an exhaust emission control catalyst and the particulate collection filter to each other, and partially has a small cross-sectional area portion 632 the flow passage cross-sectional area of which is smaller than an area of the transverse section of the particulate collection filter. The enlarged portion 633 having a flow passage cross-sectional area enlarged to be approximately as large as the area of the transverse section of the particulate collection filter is formed at the connection portion with the particulate collection filter in the connection passage 63, and the guide wall portion 634 is provided in the enlarged portion 633 to allow the exhaust gas having passed through the small cross-sectional area portion 632 to swirl along the peripheral wall of the enlarged portion 633.

A connection passage 63 is provided to connect an exhaust emission control catalyst and the particulate collection filter to each other, and partially has a small cross-sectional area portion 632 the flow passage cross-sectional area of which is smaller than an area of the transverse section of the particulate collection filter. The enlarged portion 633 having a flow passage cross-sectional area enlarged to be approximately as large as the area of the transverse section of the particulate collection filter is formed at the connection portion with the particulate collection filter in the connection passage 63, and the guide wall portion 634 is provided in the enlarged portion 633 to allow the exhaust gas having passed through the small cross-sectional area portion 632 to swirl along the peripheral wall of the enlarged portion 633.

A straddled vehicle having an engine unit. The engine unit includes an engine body having a cylinder axis tilting forward, a radiator including a radiator core, a turbocharger including a turbine wheel and a compressor wheel, and an intercooler including an intercooler core. In a side view, at least a part of the intercooler core, a part of the turbine wheel and a part of the radiator core are within an area enclosed by a first connecting line, a second connecting line, an engine-body front-surface and a wheel rear-surface. In an upward-downward or forward-backward direction of the cylinder axis, the intercooler-core upper end is more upward than the turbine-wheel upper end, the intercooler-core front end is more frontward than the turbine-wheel front end, the intercooler-core lower end is more upward than the radiator-core upper end, and the radiator-core rear end is more frontward than both the turbine-wheel rear end and the intercooler-core rear end.

A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine is provided. The turbocharger includes at least three connections for respective lines. The at least three connections are arranged on the same side of the turbocharger. The turbocharger is designed in such a manner that the lines can be mounted with a common screw to the at least three connections.

A exhaust gas purifier includes a case having a flat transverse section including a pair of facing short sides and a pair of facing long sides, and configured to house a catalytic converter, and an inlet cone including a conical portion, and configured to connect an outlet of the turbine to an inlet of the case. The conical portion includes an inclined wall inclined from a mainstream of the exhaust gas to increase the transverse section of a path of the exhaust gas. A recess recessed inward is formed in a portion corresponding to each of the long sides of the inclined wall of the conical portion.

A exhaust gas purifier includes a case having a flat transverse section including a pair of facing short sides and a pair of facing long sides, and configured to house a catalytic converter, and an inlet cone including a conical portion, and configured to connect an outlet of the turbine to an inlet of the case. The conical portion includes an inclined wall inclined from a mainstream of the exhaust gas to increase the transverse section of a path of the exhaust gas. A recess recessed inward is formed in a portion corresponding to each of the long sides of the inclined wall of the conical portion.

A method and apparatus that circumvents belt path obstacles in a Corvette C8 engine for transferring auxiliary power from the engine crankshaft output pulley to a supercharger input pulley by using a drive path transfer apparatus including a transfer input pulley located in the same plane as the crankshaft pulley and connected to it with the main drive belt, a transfer output pulley in a second plane spaced inboard of the first plane including the supercharger pulley, a secondary belt joining the transfer output pulley and the supercharger pulley, and a coupling shaft having the transfer input pulley at one end and the transfer output pulley at the other end, the coupling shaft being rotationally mounted in a two-piece installable bracket secured on the engine block in a location to the side of the obstruction, thereby transferring power from the engine to the supercharger without interference from the obstruction.

A method and apparatus that circumvents belt path obstacles in a Corvette C8 engine for transferring auxiliary power from the engine crankshaft output pulley to a supercharger input pulley by using a drive path transfer apparatus including a transfer input pulley located in the same plane as the crankshaft pulley and connected to it with the main drive belt, a transfer output pulley in a second plane spaced inboard of the first plane including the supercharger pulley, a secondary belt joining the transfer output pulley and the supercharger pulley, and a coupling shaft having the transfer input pulley at one end and the transfer output pulley at the other end, the coupling shaft being rotationally mounted in a two-piece installable bracket secured on the engine block in a location to the side of the obstruction, thereby transferring power from the engine to the supercharger without interference from the obstruction.