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Re: How many cylinders do you have?

To: Scot Zediker <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>, Smokerbros@aol.com,
Subject: Re: How many cylinders do you have?
From: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:49:47 -0800
scot,

i had a 7 cylinder cobra for a few days when those irritating equal length
headers burned through a spark plug wire boot.  funny thing was, except for
the sound, it was hard to tell.

im pretty sure there are any number of permanent 7 cylinder camaros and
corvettes running around.  well, maybe some of them are 7.5 cylinders.  we
had a 5.5 cylinder chevy malibu for a while.  =)

-james


----- Original Message -----
From: Scot Zediker <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>
To: <Smokerbros@aol.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>;
<team.net@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:20 AM
Subject: RE: How many cylinders do you have?


> My current cylinder count is a piddling 10 (my 4-banger and the wife's
V6).  I'm at 54 lifetime (eight cars of my own, one of my dad's that I drove
a lot when I first got licensed, and two ATC's).  BTW, I've operated almost
every number of cylinders between 1 and 8 (among the cars, there was one
Chevy Sprint and a 5-cyl Audi)!  Anyone know where I can find something with
a 7-cylinder engine? ;)
>
> Scot
> '91 CS Miata
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Smokerbros@aol.com
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net, team.net@autox.team.net
> Sent: December 18, 2000 4:07:49 AM GMT
> Subject: How many cylinders do you have?
>
>
> Peter Egan's latest column on R & T is about the number of cylinders we
have.
>  My current count is 17, for instance.  8cyl. Silverado, 8 cyl. Firebird,
1
> cyl. Go-Ped.  Meager by some counts.  I think Egan's current count is 58.
>
> Then there is your life's total.  Mine is 110 (including 18 4 bangers, and
17
> cars that have been autocrossed).  Egan's is nearly 300, I think.
>
> By the way, Egan says that anything with internal combustion engines
counts,
> including lawn mowers, weed whackers, etc., and reminds us of something
that
> we all know, there are levels of quality, too.  12 lawn mowers does NOT
equal
> 1 Ferrari 275!
>
> For counting purposes, Egan didn't have to count Rotaries, or at least
didn't
> mention it.  I figured them as 6 cylinder engines (3 chambers X 2 rotors).
>
> Okay, let's hear your numbers, complete with lies, excuses, stories!
>
> CHD

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