Ferrari Mailing List: Re: More power little motors

[Dan Warlick (edwf430]

I love the sound of the Colombo engines as well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LarryT" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
To: "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] att.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] More power little motors


> 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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> LarryT
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