Ya got me beat by 6 Rick. Must be the new Mercedes?
Now the natural extension to this question is how many in3. I do have
two 383s in the mix. All others are 350s but the ZO6 and 98 Camaro
which are really 346s.
Perry
Rick Brown wrote:
> Peter Egan is great. I'll bite, including model airplanes, lawn mowers and
> motorcycles: 62.
> Life total, well, quite a few more.
> Also have one gas turbine; 30 pounds thrust at 80,000 rpm. Still haven't
> built a plane for it.
> Does supercharging or turbocharging give a multiplication factor bonus?
>
> Rick Brown
> rbrown7@pacbell.net
> (408)737-1986
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Smokerbros@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:08 PM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net; team.net@autox.team.net
> 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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