What's your Piston Count?

[Andy Hall]

[John Rumm]

Best I can manage is 16 (and that includes adding those in Mother's car which is currently on our driveway, and the 10cc IC engine in my toy boat!)

[Mary Fisher]

Oh, of course!

In that case two more for bike pumps, two for car/caravan tyre pumps, one for ancient brass pesticide pump, several in hypodermic wotsits, various grease guns ... oh, we're obviously persons of distinction :-)

Mary

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[Mary Fisher]

Oh bugger the rules, this is Britain, we make our own :-)

Mary

[The Medway Handyman]

Piston Broke - does that count?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Vortex" saying something like:

Not including the Mazda rotary...

32 in working engines plus another 12 in stripped/spare engines.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "bronco" saying something like:

No, you're just a dysfunctional wanker or troll.

[Steve Walker]

Mere *single* cylinder lawnmowers? Once you've tried a V6 there's no going back.... :o)

[Mark]

I collect cars, bikes, military vehicles and just about anything with an engine so not fair if I play But how about just two Rolls Royce K60, I use this as a generator

Royce CV12, I use this for ..urm poaching

pistons 1440bhp and 32 litres

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[Mary Fisher]

Six cylinders and no reverse gear?

I'm speechless.

Mary

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[Mary Fisher]

Mary

[Vortex]

Good count.

I had 4 minis, but in series not parallel. Thinking about it I had 5:

1959 Mini 850 Cost me £100 in 1978. Sold for £125 Floor starter and no seatbelts 1968 Mini 850 Mk2 I had that for 3 years. 1968 Mini 1000 Remote gearchange LUXURY!!!!!!. Still sliding Windows 1976 Mini 1000 Wind down windows but zero rustproofing 1971 Mini Cooper S Mark3 Before blue LEDS were invented.

david

[nightjar]

Have the Americans started to metricate? I always thought they used cubic inches for engine capacity.

Colin Bignell

[dave sanderson]

or current mini count includes bog std 1000 mini mayfair D reg, genuine

28K miles, 1275GT with +60 Race engine, 19 point roll cage, bucket seats etc, my road rally car (insurance nightmare....), another 1000, and a clubby in need of cutting up and throwing away (but the engine is still good....) it seems one mini is never enough... Dave

[dave sanderson]

Ill get onto it at once, Ive a couple of 4 cylinder engines not activley involved in motorcars, maybe a frankenstein 90 degree Vee eight, with about a 5 foot cutting width? ;)

Dave

[Alan Deane]

Well......

Jaguar XJ-S V12 = 12 Volvo 850 & V40 = 9 VW Polo = 4 Mower, strimmer, 2 generators, another engine waiting for a project, total =

5 Compressor = 2 And at least 10 glow plug model engines, = 10

Total 42. Still a long way behind Mr. Cheerful. Now if I include the volvo 940 engine in the garage awaiting sale and the Jag V12, Fiesta and Polo engines I've recently stripped for parts I'd be ahead!

Alan.

[Ron Lowe]

"nightjar .uk.com>"

They use both nowadays.

The local rednecks tend to use the cubic inches, the UK expats tend to use Litres But there is a fair crossover.

Talking of the local rednecks, I went to a 'tractor pull' at the Astrodome a few years ago. They have these triple-engined monstrosities roaring at full throttle with flames belching from the exhausts *indoors*. The noise is nothing short of incredible. Every so often, one of the engines simply explodes in a massive bang, and that's them out.

Lord alone knows what kind of transmission they use to combine the 3 engines at the kinds of torque they were generating.