Caught me! My fingers don't work as fast as my brain sometimes. THe trailing
6 was left over from the 1296 listing, but what's 3 cc
among friends! :)
Joe
"Mitchell, Douglas (D.B.)" wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Curry [mailto:spitlist@gte.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:26 PM
> > To: Roger Elliott
> > Cc: Bill Miller; spitfires@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Was: Oil preferences Now: 1600cc's
> >
> >
> >
> > Roger, Actually it goes back even further than that. The
> > roots of that engine were in the Standard Eight which had an
> > 803 cc version.
> >
> > The bore was 58 mm with a stroke of 76 mm
> >
> > The 948 was a bored out version of the 803 (63 x 76 mm)
> >
> > Then came the 1147 (69.3 x 76 mm)
> > 1296 (73.7 x 76)
> >
> > After that, it was determined that they could not safely
> > increase the bore so to increase the displacement, they could
> > only tackle the
> > stroke. So the 1500 (actually 1496) has a bore of 73.7 mm
> > and a stroke of 87.5 mm.
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
> Joe,
>
> Actually it is 1493 cc engine, not 1496.
>
> But I am sure that you knew this, just that your fingers have
> a mind of their own. ;)
>
> Doug Mitchell
> mailto:dbmitchell@bigfoot.com
> '73 Spitfire 1493 (temporarily (since 1981) Spitfire 1296)
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