questions about displacement

[Pop N Wood]

4 cylinder engines in rwd configurations weren't common until later in the century because there was no real need to have a 4 cyl.

 

Don't know that I would agree with that statement. The Model T was built from 1908-1927 and had a 4 cylinder with rear wheel drive.

 

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/specs.html

 

Pintos and Chevettes were all RWD 4 cylinders, as were the majority of the old British sports cars.

[Here comes trouble]

LOL....L16 (1600 CC), L18 (!800 CC) and L20 (2000 CC) are all 4 cylinder overhead cam engines of the late 60's and 70's with 2 cylinders short of being a 1969-1983 Z car 6 cylinder engine on these designations L24 (2400 CC), L26 (2600 CC) and L28 (2800 CC).for example : 240 Z, 260 Z and 280 Z and 280 ZX.. besides small block Chevy engines displacing 350 cubic inch (and it's modifications and the the L head series of Datsun 4 and 6 cylinder engines (and it's modifications).( Buick V6 also).. I could care less about any other conversion engine to confuse me any further.... since it is has been quite an effort in time and money to just get a 350 Chevy in a Z.. Seems there are too many distractions and problems in accomplishing this task. Not only I have a 250 GTO project going but an unfinished Tomahawk project with a lot of stolen and missing parts plus a convertible kit with it's donar stolen http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/larryjohnson97438/album?.dir=/392a http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/larryjohnson97438/album?.dir=8223&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/larryjohnson97438/my_photos

[Deep]

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