Litres of Cars

[Jarcy]

Ok, here's a quiz for you if you're bored:

I've now got 10 litres of cars sitting on my driveway:
TVR Chimaera 500, Alfa 156 2.5 V6 and Omega 2.5 V6.
I'm sure there's some of you petrolheads out there who can beat that. Let's have your cubic capacities.

I also have 20 cylinders and 20 spark plugs to replace each year. Any advances?

[davidy]

At one time we had 6 cars

Griffth 500 -------- 5.0
Volvo 960 Est ------ 3.0
Impreza Turbo ------ 2.8 using motorsport calculator for a turbo x 1.4
TVR Taimar --------- 3.0
TVR Vixen ---------- 1.6
Volvo 240 ---------- 2.2

Total ------------- 17.6

Cylinders --------- 32

And over 1000 bhp !!!! (320+205+235+200+100+80=1140)

plus a motorbike (500cc Kwacka Triple)

davidy

>> Edited by davidy on Wednesday 26th June 22:28

[frostie]

Well I can't win on totals alone but if we talk averages ...

Until 2 months ago I had

Ferrari 355 - 380bhp
Cerbie 4.5 - 420bhp
Golf GTI Turbo - 150bhp

Thats 950bhp in 3 cars 317bhp on average

Cerbie has been changed to a Tomora so slightly less now

>> Edited by frostie on Wednesday 26th June 22:46

>> Edited by frostie on Wednesday 26th June 22:47

[whitechimp500]

Very silly,but here goes;
Range Rover : 4.6 L V8 / 225 BHP
Discovery V8i : 3.9 L V8 / 189 BHP
Triumph Stag : 3.0 L V8 / 145 BHP
TVR Chimaera : 5.0 l V8 / 320 BHP*
*
= 16.5 litres , 32 cylinders, 879 BHP.

Thanks to the brewers of a certain "Premium Continental Lager" for the inspiration for me to sit down and work out the maths.

[goubda]

Chimaera 4.0HC ---------- 4000
Lexus Soarer -------------- 4000
Mk 1 MR2 supercharged -- 1600
Nissan Primera ------------ 2000
Helicopter ------------------ 5.23

Total ----------------------- 11605.23cc
and 25 cylinders

[Nathan_M12]

Accord R - 2.2 210
Golf GTi Turbo - 1.8*1.4= 2.5 150
Clio Cup Race Car - 1.8 160
Mounford Lawn Mower - .01 1 ?

Pretty poor for me, can't wait for the Noble to even things out a bit!

[Suggs]

Tuscan 4.0 Litres
TR6 2.5 Litres
Subaru 2.0 Litres
Focus 1.8 Litres
Triumph Sprint .955 Litres (call it 1.0?)

Total 11.3 Litres and 23 cylinders, not including garden machinery.

Sod it ... a v-twin 16 hp mower and a petrol chainsaw and a petrol strimmer. Thats 4 more cylinders!


>> Edited by Suggs on Thursday 27th June 15:04

[Midnight Blue]

Griff 500 5.0 - V8 - 340bhp
Daimler Double-Six 5.3 - V12 - 298bhp
Merc C220 2.2 - s4 - 150bhp
Classic BMW 323i 2.7 - s6 - 198bhp

Bugger, 986hp that's short of the magic 1000. I'm off out now to buy the mother of all lawn mowers!

[yum]

Ok, lets get them out on the table;

Chimaera 4000 V8 240
Discovery 2500 4 115 (!)
Volvo 2000 5 140

Boat 1 1220 4 84
Boat 2 5000 V8 205

total 14720cc
29 cylinders, 784hp


>> Edited by yum on Thursday 27th June 13:38

[yum]

quote:
Very silly,but here goes;
Range Rover : 4.6 L V8 / 225 BHP
Discovery V8i : 3.9 L V8 / 189 BHP
Triumph Stag : 3.0 L V8 / 145 BHP
TVR Chimaera : 5.0 l V8 / 320 BHP

a fondness for the Rover V8, I take it? Isn't it surprising what each can extract from it.

[LOVEMYTVR]

OK crazy but fun.....here goes
Griffith 5000 8
Chimaera 4500 8
Mini Cooper 1275 4
Espace v6 2200 6
Lawnmower - Flymo - so doesn`t count (damn- must get a new one asap)
Totals 12975 26

[Pete_W]

S2 2.9 / 170 BHP (if I'm lucky)

Total 2.9 / 170 BHP

And that's it, bugger, I've got to get a job that pays as well yours so obviously do....feck, arse etc etc

[MikeyT]

quote:

quote:
Very silly,but here goes;
Range Rover : 4.6 L V8 / 225 BHP
Discovery V8i : 3.9 L V8 / 189 BHP
Triumph Stag : 3.0 L V8 / 145 BHP
TVR Chimaera : 5.0 l V8 / 320 BHP

a fondness for the Rover V8, I take it? Isn't it surprising what each can extract from it.

Yes but the Stag engine is a Ttiumph V8 engine, ie two Triumph Dolomite engines stuck together – NOT a Rover V8 engine.

How I wish it had been the Rover V8, then mine might not have had the terrible trouble it had all those years ago. Darren, if I'd have known you had one, I'd have bored you silly at Chatsworth talking about my old one

Spen King – you've gotta lot to answer for.

Sorry, back on tack:

TVR Chimaera 4.0HC
MGF 1.8
VW Passat 2.0

So that's a pathetics 7.8 litres, 16 cylinders and (I think) approximately 500bhp.

>> Edited by MikeyT on Thursday 27th June 14:10

[eharding]

Thats a relief - I was beginning to think I was the only nutter out there with a nasty, expensive car habit;

Griff 500 5L 320 BHP*
Range Rover 4.6L 225 BHP
Tuscan S6 RR 4L 380 BHP*

(*) standard TVR BHP semantics apply

[whitechimp500]

quote:


How I wish it had been the Rover V8, then mine might not have had the terrible trouble it had all those years ago. Darren, if I'd have known you had one, I'd have bored you silly at Chatsworth talking about my old one

Mike,
Owning a Triumph Stag - is a bit like keeping heads in the fridge - not something one talks about in polite company .

[simpo one]

Remarkably like a thread on the ABD e-group a while back! At the time I could muster:

BMW 320i
BMW 730iV8
TVR Griffith 4.0
TVR Griffth 500

...which I think makes a 14-litre, 30-cylinder engine with too many valves to count and about 945bhp (on paper). And shitloads of insurance and road tax, boo.

[mark c]

I've just been handed a piece of paper by someone who can't be othered to type...

2 x '68 Pontiac GTO 400 6.6ltr, V8
1 x '66 Bonneville, 6.2ltr V8
1 x '75 Ranchero (sp?), 5.7ltr V8
1 x '75 Dodge pickup, 5.2ltr V8
1 x '75 Firebird, 5.7ltr V8
1 x '77 Firebird, 5.7ltr V8
1 x '48 Ford Pilot, 3.6ltr V8
1 x '54 Pontiac Chieftan, 4.0ltr S6
1 x '75 Dodge Aspen, 5.2ltr V8
1 x '68 Plymouth Valliant, 5.2ltr V8
1 x '71 Ford Excort 1.1ltr S4
1 x '79 Lancia Beta, 2.0ltr S4
1 x '68 Triumph Vitesse, 2.0ltr S6
1 x '69 Morris Minor, 1.0ltr S4
2 x '64 BMW 700, 0.7 F2
1 x '66 Rover P5, 3.0ltr S6
1 x '64 Vauxhall PB Cresta, 3.3ltr S6
1 x '64 Rambler American, 4.0ltr S6
1 x '60 Beach Buggy, 1.7ltr F4
1 x '73 Opel Kadett, 1.1ltr S4
1 x '83 Jag. XJS, 5.3ltr V12
1 x '89 Ford Granada, 2.0ltr S4

but, alas, no TVR

Without checking the maths...
87,000cc, 150 cylinders

[Neil Menzies]

Chimaera 4.0 8
Ford Focus 1.8 4
Hot Water 250.0 1

So thats 13 cylinders and 255.8 litres.

[thirsty]

I've got 14 litres of Budvar in my fridge. Yesterday I had 18 !!

[briano]

One day, I drove my Countach (5.6L) a Bentley (6.7L) and test drove a Griffith (5.0L), so that's 17 Litres and 28 cylinders in a day.

So my Countach's engine capacity was below the average engine size for the day, mind you it was a bit quicker than the others, regretably, even after you had applied the brakes!.

What a wonderfully silly thread this is.

Briano