Laredo
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What?? You know another way...? 
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jzt
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Yes. It involves better beerSteevo
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Steevo
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Lucky ******* - it must be nice having cylinders big enough to fit beer cans.
If it was a Cummins, he could use Fosters cans.
383 240z
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Nice Jeep, I'm thinking early 90's XJ?? Keith
Lucky ******* - it must be nice having cylinders big enough to fit beer cans.
What do you drive, motorcycles?
I don't think I've seen an automotive bore smaller than a beer can.
Lotek
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Mebbe one of them furrin cars, we'd best keep an eye on that one.
But I agree with Jzt, life is too short for cheap beer.
Weekend_warrior
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My 450 piston (single cylinder) is likely big enough for a 24 ounce can!
I think stock is 94mm..... Its a pretty good indication of where TDC!
James E
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I know from experience that that method only works with empty beer cans. Full cans give you false readings.
Also, if the cans are full, V-8s and slant sixes spill too much beer. Works best on an inline 6.
It usually takes me a couple more beers to figure out whether you're on the exhaust stroke or the compression stroke. Then a couple more beers to remind me that without the head, it doesn't matter. Then a couple more beers remind me that none of it matters.
Also, if the cans are full, V-8s and slant sixes spill too much beer. Works best on an inline 6.
It usually takes me a couple more beers to figure out whether you're on the exhaust stroke or the compression stroke. Then a couple more beers to remind me that without the head, it doesn't matter. Then a couple more beers remind me that none of it matters.
ddawg16
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Those cans are too 'lite'...........(Come on, someone had to point that out)
Mebbe one of them furrin cars, we'd best keep an eye on that one.
But I agree with Jzt, life is too short for cheap beer.
Guilty as charged. Renault. 65mm (2.56") bore.
I'm with you on the cheap beer though.
54FordPanel
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As James pointed out, this is for straight sixes only. And it really doesn't work on VWs.
Edit: Anybody remember when they used to claim that when they built Rolls Royce engines, that they could put a quarter on a piston and it would rotate, because they were so precisely balanced?
Yea, I didn't believe it then either.
Edit: Anybody remember when they used to claim that when they built Rolls Royce engines, that they could put a quarter on a piston and it would rotate, because they were so precisely balanced?
Yea, I didn't believe it then either.
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Falcon67
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That looks like DBC to me (Drink Beer place in Cylinder).
Should fit, then. US cans are about 2.5" dia.
carhunter
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I heard they were putting alcohol in the fuel nowadays, but that's just crazy
What's the compression ratio? 3.2%
What's the compression ratio? 3.2%