The future of the GTP cool wall - and it's not what you think!

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Should engine displacement be described only in cubic inches?

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I don't even understand what cubic inches mean anymore aside from the cars that use both today as a marketing bullet point.
 
White & Nerdy
Or un-sway, depending on how you look at it. Whether you think "bigger is better" or just the opposite, there is no denying that the size of the engine has a big effect on what someone thinks of a car. And the system of measurements used has a large effect on how big you think an engine is. Personally, I think metric measurements make an engine look bigger - that's probably why US manufacturers started switching to metric.
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So you're using factual numbers to sway people's opinions for your own purpose?

Why don't you use both systems and people can read/process whichever one they want.

Roger the Horse
To me, a 347 Stoker sounds like something you might find on a steam train (which is cool, mind)
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347 Stroker sounds like what a bad employee does before he goes home for the day.
 
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Slashfan
It kind of makes sense though. A 347 Stroker sounds a hell of a lot cooler than just another 5.5L engine.
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To you it might, to me using cubic inches just makes the engine sound really outdated and thus uncool.

But when it comes down to this stupid debate, the only logical answer is told by a little Hispanic girl:

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Joey D
To you it might, to me using cubic inches just makes the engine sound really outdated and thus uncool.
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I wouldn't want one of them in my daily driver, but the small block V8s sound glorious when they're run up to 4 or 5000 RPM. Being a little old does not automatically make them uncool. (I imagine the big blocks are pretty cool too, but I've seen the small blocks pushed hard, I haven't seen the big blocks.)
 
MrWednesday
I wouldn't want one of them in my daily driver, but the small block V8s sound glorious when they're run up to 4 or 5000 RPM. Being a little old does not automatically make them uncool. (I imagine the big blocks are pretty cool too, but I've seen the small blocks pushed hard, I haven't seen the big blocks.)
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I've seen a built 482 inch Ford 460 spin near 10,000 rpm.

If you want to see a big block pushed hard, look up truck pulls on YouTube or big block drag races.
 
White & Nerdy
Personally, I think metric measurements make an engine look bigger - that's probably why US manufacturers started switching to metric.
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And yet the US still uses miles per hour instead of kilometers.

And this is two liters:
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I think people know exactly how big or small that is. And even stating it in liters doesn't stop people from putting in their automatic "Uncool - engine too small / too big" votes. The only way to stop that is to not post any information about the car at all.

Joey D
The Metric System will always be cooler than the English system.
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Metric isn't poetic.

I will gladly measure my trips in kilometers, but I will always be five-foot-five (except when I get older and stoop). I will not sing "eight hundred kilometers" when the Proclaimers come on. And English is how I will always remember Niagra Falls.

Step by step...

Inch by inch...
 
It's purely a fuel economy thing. I'd gladly take one if I could get ~30 mpg city out of it, but if I remember right they're a fair bit lower than that.
 
I used to get 25 to 28 MPG on the freeway as long as I was soft on the gas pedal. City driving is around 15 to 20.
 
Badasp5.0
I used to get 25 to 28 MPG on the freeway as long as I was soft on the gas pedal. City driving is around 15 to 20.
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Badasp5.0
LOL I daily drove a car with a SBF 302 for almost ten years.
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Daily drove 2 351W's and a 300 I6 for nearly 30 years. 351's got around 6mpg lugging a heavy pickup around.
 
Slashfan
Daily drove 2 351W's and a 300 I6 for nearly 30 years. 351's got around 6mpg lugging a heavy pickup around.
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You've been daily driving for longer than you've been alive?
 
...when should we start taking over/under bets for every single thread on how long before it becomes a Ford love-in?
 
Noob616
You've been daily driving for longer than you've been alive?
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I should have pointed out my father has been, seeing as it's his vehicle. I didn't actually say I was the one driving, I just said those specific engines were daily driven. The MPG still stands though.
 
SlipZtrEm, surely it would be better to start taking bets on how long it is until the automotive sub-forum just gets re-named FordPlanet...
 
With a few aftermarket mods FordPlanet could be the fastest-loading subforum around, no doubt.
 

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