Small injectors

[Fredrik Skog]

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, mrvette wrote:

> I find it somewhat amazing that even with 35 years of development work it's
> still very difficult to find a factory production engine capable of making one
> hp. per cubic inch....about ~80 percent of that goal is the most attained...1.6
> liter is ~130 ci, as I recall, and most engines oly get ~80-90 hp,    and I

Hmm, that's strange. A 2.0 litre is approx 121ci. Didn't know it was a
non-linear scale :)

> would think for all the 4 cyl cars that rev to 6000 and above, that there should
> be more of them to do better than that....normally aspirated this is....
> 
> The new vettes have a 350 ci, 345 hp engine, all aluminum....which was a LONG
> time coming...and the late Lotus designed ZR1 engine was 350 ci and made no less
> than 375,  but it sure was radical enough what with DOHC...
> 

Euro BMW M3's for instance have 321HP out of 3.2 litre that's over 
100 HP/litre in a production engine. 3.2 litre = 195 ci gives 1.64 hp/ci.


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