Ferrari Mailing List: Re: More power little motors

[LarryT (l02turner]

Hey Gang -
   Remember the early Ferrari V12's?    IIRC, a 250 Ferrari is 250cc's per 
cylinder making it a 3.0L engine.  I have a hard time picturing 250CC's but 
3L is 50% larger than a 2L Coke bottle.  Getting several hundred HP from 
such a small displacement alwaysed amazed me.  Must have been pretty small 
pistons though.  If my math was better (or if I wanted to spend the time to 
figure it out) I could probably calculate the OD of the
pistons -- 

;-)

LarryT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans E. Hansen" <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] More power little motors


> A local mechanic has been stuffing late model Corvette V8s
> into 944s.  Fits quite well.
>
> He has to cut a bit off the front springs because the V8 is
> lighter.
>
> Hans.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:51 AM, LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > One very important thing to remember is that displacement does *not* 
> > equate
> > to engine size.
> >
> > Many of the cute, little, impressively "efficient" powerplants are 
> > secretly
> > massive and heavy.
> >
> > Remember that 944 Turbo?
> >
> > It seemed so "high tech" next to a Ferrari until you photographed the
> > engine bay near a tape measure.
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