Thread: Cubic Inches vs Liters

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Good tips to know from the Pros! At the moment I am worrying over the last things I have to do to the Brookville frame (battery box, headers, mufflers and leaks in brake line fittings before I put the 'glass body on the frame) BUT it does help to wonder how to get access to things like the master cylinder and the battery after the body is on. On another thread C9x has pictures (Questions about Model A seat) of his under pinnings and man oh man it is all very tight on a Deuce frame so I am scratching my head on the '29 frame, but it helps to know that a lot of folks have done this before. Back to the liters, you can see from my example of the Pinto 2.0 L engine at 122.05 cu in that Tech1's easy conversion of 61 cu in/liter is good enough for estimates. Another conversion that is good to know for gas tank dimensions is that (4x946 cc)= 3784 cc/U.S. gallon so that if you measure a gas tank in inches as length x width x depth to get cubic inches you can divide the 16.387 cc/cu in into the 3784 cc/gallon to get (3784/16.387) = 230.914 cu in for one gallon. The guys who design gas tanks say to just use 231 cu in per gallon. I try to remember this as the size of the Buick V6, so every two revolutions the V6 gulps in a gallon of fuel-air mixture. Thanks for the floppy-universal-socket-tape-fix for the socket wrench!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder