Ferrari Mailing List: Re: More power little motors

[LS (lashdeep]

Larry, focus on the external dimensions and weight of the engine not the 
displacement!!!

That's the point with the 944T. It only had 3.0 liters, but dimensionally it 
was immense and not so impressive. 

Modern engines are much smaller and lighter/bhp of output. Well, some modern 
engines.

The BMW inline 6 used in so many models is also huge and heavy.

LS



----- Original Message ----
From: LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
To: LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:15:14 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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