What is your cylinder quotient?

Rufledt wrote: What does a rotary count as? standard 13B-MSP

OK i'm counting it as a 4cyl. Reason being it's 1.3l for 2 rotors, but some sanctioning bodies require it be considered as 2.6l, double the actual displacement, so i'm doubling the rotors.

That makes my quotient 0.786.

It would go up if you count every face of each rotor as a cylinder, but it seems like power delivery is much closer to, say, an S2000 engine which is 4cyl. Agreed?

Rufledt wrote:

Rufledt wrote: What does a rotary count as? standard 13B-MSP

OK i'm counting it as a 4cyl. Reason being it's 1.3l for 2 rotors, but some sanctioning bodies require it be considered as 2.6l, double the actual displacement, so i'm doubling the rotors. That makes my quotient 0.786. It would go up if you count every face of each rotor as a cylinder, but it seems like power delivery is much closer to, say, an S2000 engine which is 4cyl. Agreed?

If you look at the power pulse delivery, it's closer to a 2.6L inline 6.

(Thinking about it this way demonstrates why a 4-rotor motor is so awesome)

Don't get why it needs to be divided by age (says the older dude). When my friends and I were keeping track it was just gross cylinder count. I would win regularly in a tough crowd, but my XJS gave me a big boost. I've sold 5 cars/trucks in the past 6 months or so and only bought 2, so at a career low of 32. Not counting lawn equipment, which, sorry, is just wrong.

running vehicles only? 26

1.14
Can we play HP to age? I do better at that.

In reply to mazdeuce:

I could add all my hp together and include the wife's car and not equal one of your vehicles.

If I count all of them, including running antiques, lawn equipment, boats, hobby engines, and all the cars, I get 1.69.

83 cylinders, 49 years old.

If I count only the cars and things designed to move people, I get 1.18.

58 cylinders, same age.

1.17 running. Not drivable, but running.

1.511111

Are we shooting for a higher or lower number?

.63829787234
Lot's of cylinders, but lots of age too.

.66

Only counting motors installed in a car? I get 0.8.

But I'm about to pickup another car on Thursday that would put me at 1.1.

And if you count the two good engines that I recently pulled, sitting in my garage I get: 1.3 now, and 1.6 after the new car on Thursday.

GSmith wrote: running vehicles only? 26

You forgot the math part....

.091

Let's see, mine and running: .37, which is pathetic because I'm still pretty young.

Counting not running, but installed and soon to be running: .67, getting better.

Including SWMBOmobile: .89

I don't even have any lawn equipment to add, since the string trimmer is electric and I sold the mower this past weekend. Although, come to think of it, I do have another motorcycle I'd forgotten about that I think is still in the shed at my dad's rental property. But I doubt it's anywhere near running at the moment and it's only 1 more cylinder anyways.

.48

I'm hurt here by 3 single cylinder vehicles.

But... wouldn't this quotient be better calculated by vehicles/cylinders?

What does count and age tell us? If I had twins instead of thumpers I'd score differently. If I got creative and used anything with a cylinder (brake calipers, air rifles, hood cylinders, hydraulic jacks...) it wouldn't be cheating would it? What about propane cylinders?

0.3636 with running cars

If you include the mid-swap Courier, I'm up to 0.55

.477

It doesn't help that all my current 2 wheelers are singles.

Counting only running engines installed in cars, about 0.27...only using 2 decimal places to hide my exact age.

If I recalculate using cylinders and not just "combustion tubes":

Tacoma: 6 cylinder engine, 4 brake calipers, 4 shocks, 2 hood cylinders, 2 tailgate cylinders...

I still have two cars and 4 motos, lawn care equipment and tools.... and I'm going to be way into whole numbers before I even get to the gun cabinet.

In reply to Huckleberry:

Stop being so pedantic and enjoy it for what it isThe age thing just adds a wild card that makes the whole thing useless as a comparison but interesting to me.

.634 2 v8's, 1 4cyl, 1 triple, 1 v-twin, and a single cylinder. 26 cylinders.

1.88 thanks to my addiction to rotary engines

Lessee now, only counting 'em if they are in things with steering wheels or handlebars... 8x4 + 4x2 + 6x2 + 3 +2 +1 +1, and last I checked I am 51, so 1.156. I could improve that by adding in a couple more cyls from Moby the Road Condo's genset but that seems like padding the case. So let's. 2 more there, 2 more for Sparky the house generator, another for the chainsaw one more for the weedwhacker, that gets me to 1.27, and a nice even 1 at retirement age if I can keep em all running til then! If I tried to count up all the other cylinders in things like compressors and hydraulics and brakes I bet I could get into the 2's but that'd just be silly. Oh hey I could put a forced-induction multiplier on 24 of those cylinders on the list and--nevermind

Mine might be changing this afternoon. I may have just found the new powertrain for Sanford. 250hp, 950tq, Allison automatic.