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Rep Power: 265 Courtesy of http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm/printable:
Displacement
The combustion chamber is the area where compression and combustion take place. As the piston moves up and down, you can see that the size of the combustion chamber changes. It has some maximum volume as well as a minimum volume. The difference between the maximum and minimum is called the displacement and is measured in liters or CCs (Cubic Centimeters, where 1,000 cubic centimeters equals a liter).
Here are some examples:
Generally, the displacement tells you something about how much power an engine can produce. A cylinder that displaces half a liter can hold twice as much fuel/air mixture as a cylinder that displaces a quarter of a liter, and therefore you would expect about twice as much power from the larger cylinder (if everything else is equal). So a 2.0 liter engine is roughly half as powerful as a 4.0 liter engine.
You can get more displacement in an engine either by increasing the number of cylinders or by making the combustion chambers of all the cylinders bigger (or both).
Displacement
The combustion chamber is the area where compression and combustion take place. As the piston moves up and down, you can see that the size of the combustion chamber changes. It has some maximum volume as well as a minimum volume. The difference between the maximum and minimum is called the displacement and is measured in liters or CCs (Cubic Centimeters, where 1,000 cubic centimeters equals a liter).
Here are some examples:
- A chainsaw might have a 40 cc engine.
- A motorcycle might have a 500 cc or a 750 cc engine.
- A sports car might have a 5.0 liter (5,000 cc) engine.
Generally, the displacement tells you something about how much power an engine can produce. A cylinder that displaces half a liter can hold twice as much fuel/air mixture as a cylinder that displaces a quarter of a liter, and therefore you would expect about twice as much power from the larger cylinder (if everything else is equal). So a 2.0 liter engine is roughly half as powerful as a 4.0 liter engine.
You can get more displacement in an engine either by increasing the number of cylinders or by making the combustion chambers of all the cylinders bigger (or both).
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Originally Posted by 4drcivic2k1
Bore x Stroke x # of cylinders.
In simple talk... thats the volume of a cylinder * the amount of cylinders there are. Convert your units. If you do the bore and stroke in mm, you'll get a displacement in cubic mm and you'll need to divide by 1000 to get it in cc.
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Originally Posted by TransformedBG
I see, so bassically the main avantages to haveing a larger displacemen it more power huh?
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