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Old Mar 19, 2003 | 09:46 AM
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I tried finding this using a search, I know I saw it before, but cant seem to find it. Whats the formula again?

say 4.125 bore, stock stroke (3.622 right?)
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Old Mar 19, 2003 | 09:54 AM
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Bore X Bore X Stroke X .7854 X Number of cylinders = C.I.D. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

In your case I come up with 387.23 inches!

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Old Mar 19, 2003 | 11:33 AM
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Cool, thanks!
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 11:51 AM
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Anytime my friend! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" />
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 03:25 PM
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All you're really doing is calculating the volume of one cylinder and then multipling that by the total number of cylinders. The volume of a cylinder is height times the area of one end. The area of one end is just the area of a circle, or pi*r**2. Since the bore is diameter instead of radius, you have to divide it by 2. Factoring out the 2 from the squared term, you get 4. pi/4 = .7854. I just thought you might want to know where that formula came from. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 03:32 PM
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Ok that makes sense, my problem was that I was in fact doing pi*r^2 x height(stroke), and I was using the diameter of the bore instead of the radius and coming up with like 7000ci, which obviously wasnt right.

Thanks for the info again!
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 03:43 PM
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My 4.125" bore 6.72" stroke is around 396ci.
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 04:09 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Terry Burger:
<strong> My 4.125" bore 6.72" stroke is around 396ci. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">WOW a 6.72" stroke? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_images/icons/tongue.gif" /> I calculate 718ci ! <img border="0" alt="[jester]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_jest.gif" />
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 08:05 PM
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Ditto on the 718! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

Damn! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" />

My 524 stroker only has a 4.125 stroke! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_images/icons/tongue.gif" />
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Old Mar 21, 2003 | 08:19 PM
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Or you can just take the easy way out and go here. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
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