> What Matt and Kyle said. Think about it: you supply gasoline to each cylinder and fire every one of the 8. Every cylinder exerts its force onto the crank and will do the same work as the other 7. Some extra losses will result from mechanical linkages to connect the two cranks, but when you double the number of cylinders, burn double the amount of fuel, you get double the power.
Oh, I think it's much simpler than that. It's not about whether it's better. It's not about whether it adds more horespower. It's not about efficiency or losses. It's not about how much gas goes into the cylinder. It's not about whether the cylinder gets fired. It's not about how much work the piston is doing. Engine displacement and power are unrelated. Engine displacement is literally only a measurement of the total volume that the cylinders displace when moving through their cycle, nothing more. In medicine, you'll hear doctors say "Give the patient 10ccs of X". It's the volume of a syringe's displacement (a plastic piston). In cooking, we know the displacement of jars of pickles or measuring cups. And it's called for by the recipe. That's all CCs mean. A measurement of volume. That task you perform with that measurement, what you do with that volume (fill with gas-air mixture and ignite, fill with medicine and inject, or fill with sugar and pour) doesn't change the volume. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nighthawk_lovers/CALEp-WedVqttK%3D4reDY75M25w0UCRpsWdERPExyMxKO_GQc3DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
