engine displacement
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Re: engine displacement (conradondecc)
Displacement essentially refers to the combined volume of all they cylinders in an engine.
This might illustrate it better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_displacement
This might illustrate it better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_displacement
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Re: engine displacement (conradondecc)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by conradondecc »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what is engine displacement? all of the domestic owners r always sayin there is no replacement for displacement. what does that mean?</TD></TR></TABLE>
In simplest terms, to someone that doesn't know anything about engines, it's how big the engine is. The bigger it is, the more air and fuel it can fit. The more air and fuel it can explode, the bigger the BOOM and the more power.
This is all theory though. It takes much more than that to make respectable power. However, the stereotype for domestics is to just make their engines fuking huge so they don't have to worry about anything else. That's how they get their power. They justify this by making up catchy phrases such as "there's no replacement for displacement".
It's important to note that displacement, as a rule, means the engine produces a lot of torque. This basically means that you don't have to rev it high to make some power. Since that is the only thing that most domestics have to offer, domestic owners tend to make this "torque" out to be the most important, end all, ultimate number that can be used to describe any car. As such, they make up other catchy phrases such as "horsepower sells cars, torque wins races". The fact that this statement is mostly false doesn't seem to matter, as it appears to have caught on in American culture.
The stereotype for Hondas is to only worry about "everything else", but make the engines as small as possible. That's how they get their power. However, this tends to result in low amounts of this "torque", at least when compared to a domestic. This means the engine needs to be revved higher to make the car go fast. It's not really that big a deal but it tends to be blown out of proportion, even by Honda guys, because, after all "there's no replacement for displacement" and "horsepower sells cars, torque wins races."
Other manufacturers take a combination of displacement and "everything else" to arrive at a decent power number.
A true performance engine, such as one found in a supercar, would have a "big" engine with as much "everything else" as possible. That would theoretically result in the most power. And it usually does.
In simplest terms, to someone that doesn't know anything about engines, it's how big the engine is. The bigger it is, the more air and fuel it can fit. The more air and fuel it can explode, the bigger the BOOM and the more power.
This is all theory though. It takes much more than that to make respectable power. However, the stereotype for domestics is to just make their engines fuking huge so they don't have to worry about anything else. That's how they get their power. They justify this by making up catchy phrases such as "there's no replacement for displacement".
It's important to note that displacement, as a rule, means the engine produces a lot of torque. This basically means that you don't have to rev it high to make some power. Since that is the only thing that most domestics have to offer, domestic owners tend to make this "torque" out to be the most important, end all, ultimate number that can be used to describe any car. As such, they make up other catchy phrases such as "horsepower sells cars, torque wins races". The fact that this statement is mostly false doesn't seem to matter, as it appears to have caught on in American culture.
The stereotype for Hondas is to only worry about "everything else", but make the engines as small as possible. That's how they get their power. However, this tends to result in low amounts of this "torque", at least when compared to a domestic. This means the engine needs to be revved higher to make the car go fast. It's not really that big a deal but it tends to be blown out of proportion, even by Honda guys, because, after all "there's no replacement for displacement" and "horsepower sells cars, torque wins races."
Other manufacturers take a combination of displacement and "everything else" to arrive at a decent power number.
A true performance engine, such as one found in a supercar, would have a "big" engine with as much "everything else" as possible. That would theoretically result in the most power. And it usually does.
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