When a car is said to be 1.4 or 1.6 litres, what is actually being measured?
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the total cubic capacity of all cylinders, 1400 cubic centimetres, which is the volume of the petrol/air mix to be compressed before ignition. in general, the higher amount of cc, the more powerful the engine will be and the more petrol you will use to develop that power.
cylinder size
The oil capacity in engine
Engine size.
size of glove compartment
injection at which the fuel is being used in the engine the bigger the number the more fuel being used
the volume of the cyclinders with the pistons in their lowest operating position
isnt it cubic capacity
piston displacement
The six pack sitting on the dashboard
engine displacement
cubic size of its cylinders
mostly used in differenciating 4 cylinder cars
cylinders refer to the cylinder shaped shaft where fuel and air are mixed then ignited by the spark plug to create an explosion that creates force that drives the car
bigger cylinders = bigger power = bigger mixture of fuel required = more trips to petrol stations
more cylinders = less engine work to drive = even more power = even more trips to petrol station
Total displacement. The higher the number the larger the displacement, therefore more power. In the US most engines are rated by horsepower. And cubic inches rather then litres.
The total displacement is: The cubic cm or inches as measured by a piston in an engine being at bottom dead center, the space above that point times the number of cyclinders. Now days they convert that to litres.
Older muscle cars are almost always referred to by the cubic inch. Which, I suppose, one could convert in litres. Examples:
426 Hemi, Chevy 409, Chevy 327, Chevy 350, Dodge 318, and 360, etc. During the 60's and 70's manufacturers used a "rated horsepower" table which was not very actuate but sounded better. Later on they changed to "brake horsepower." Which is the actual horsepower.
displacement.
The swept volume of the engine.
that is the total capacity of all the cylinders of the engine, this is measured in Cubic inches for American engines and Litres for European, or jap. Small engines ues cubic Centimetres, cc conveniently 1000 cc = 1 litre so 1.6 litre = 1600 cc.
It is not amount of air the engine can breathe in when turned through one revolution, although in a two stroke this figure would be similar, but in a conventional Four stroke engine each cylinder only produces power once in every two revolutions. Also Supercharged or turbocharged engines can breathe in far more air than the nominal capacity when running at peak efficiency speed
C.C also stands for Cubic capacity so , "what CC is it" means what is the Cubic Capacity and the reply 1275cc means 1275 cubic Centimetres .
The CC is roughly related to the power of the engine, which is measured in horsepower or Kw and primarily affects the top speed of the car, The CC also has a more direct effect on Torque which provides acceleration and pulling Power, although some engines such as Rover 1100 cc units pull better than other peoples 1400s
its measuring how many ltres it will take to get the car to move 1.4 or 1.6 millimeters on a perfectly flat surface.
For example
a Fiesta 1.1
A.it will move on a flat surface 1.1mm forward per litre,
B.it will move downhill- 1.1 mm +((downward gradiant/specific gravity of moon juice)-wind speed)
C.it will move uphill 1.1mm-gravity x (number of fairys who wear boots on Shrove tuesday/the amount of volume of exhaust fumes it takes to fill 12 balloons)
total cylinder volumn, for example if each cylinder holds 0.625 liters of gas and you have 8 cylinders it would have 5.0 cubic liters (before compression
the engines capacity as in cc. cubic capacity.
it is the bore size in side the block
cylinder size
engine / cylinder size or capacity viz, 1.4l equivalent 1398 cc.
how much more insurance companies can rip you off for.
The volume, in litres, of the cylinders.
The displacment of the Cylinders.
Its the displacement, or swept volume, of the cylinders in the engine.
i.e. the cross-sectional area of each cylinder x the "stroke" of the piston (the amount the piston can travel up-and-down within the cylinder) x the number of cylinders.
For example, many VW engines have 4 cylinders of 81mm (8.1cm) bore, and pistons with a stroke of 86.4mm (8.64cm).
C/s area = πr² = 3.14159x(8.1 / 2)² = 51.53 cm²
Swept are per cylinder = c/s area x stroke 51.53 x 8.64 = 445.2 cm³
Total displacement = 445.2 *4 = 1780.8 cm³ which rounds off to 1781cc or 1.8 litres.
See http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine1.ht.
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