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Re: How many cylinders do you have?

To: Rick Brown <rbrown7@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: How many cylinders do you have?
From: Perry Kincy <kincy@ccnet.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:10:45 -0800
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-----
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> 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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