Re: piston speeds

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

-- [ From: Huw Powell * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --

>i was having a drink with another petrolhead <can you smoke while drinking
petrol?> last night and we were talking about f1 engines reving to over 18,
000rpm.  some rudimentary calculations based on the assumption that a 3l v10
has a stroke of about 60mm (bore 80mm) would yield a piston speed of 2k
m/min or 7k ft/min or there abouts.

that's only about 75-80 mph isn't it?  Still impressive considering that .
003 seconds later it's going that fast in the opposite direction!

Huw Powell
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