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Old 01-30-2008, 03:02 PM
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What is the formula needed to figure out the displacement of an engine.

I know i need bore and i know i need stroke...
what else?
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It's Pi (a constant equal to approximately 3.14) times the radius squared (half the diameter of the bore multiplied times itself) times the stroke times the number of cylinders. If the dimensions are in inches, the answer will be in cubic inches. Alternately, if you use centimeters, the answer will be in cubic centimeters.

So that's: Displacement = radius * radius * 3.14 * stroke * cylinders

I hope that this helps.

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.7853982 * bore squared * stroke * number of cylinders

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.7853982 * bore squared * stroke * number of cylinders

Right. To make it easy to remember, use .7854, the four numbers in the upper left corner of a keypad/calculator run clockwise. It is PI/4 rounded a bit and is accurate to a small fraction of a cubic inch of displacement. Actually it it is accurate to about .0008 cubic inches in a 350 V8.


It just makes it easy. You don't even need to remember the exact number. It's on the keypad. That's handy for us older folks.

bore x bore x stroke x number of cylinders x .7854 = displacement

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ok thx guys. thats what i needed
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Originally Posted by Old SStroker
Right. To make it easy to remember, use .7854, the four numbers in the upper left corner of a keypad/calculator run clockwise. It is PI/4 rounded a bit and is accurate to a small fraction of a cubic inch of displacement. Actually it it is accurate to about .0008 cubic inches in a 350 V8.


It just makes it easy. You don't even need to remember the exact number. It's on the keypad. That's handy for us older folks.

bore x bore x stroke x number of cylinders x .7854 = displacement

Jon




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