The volume between the engine head and piston when the piston is in the head dead center piston R - is expressed in cubic inches
1.2l engine means the engine has 1200 cc(cubic centimeters) capacity of the cylinders! or we may say that the total volume of all the cylinders is equal to 1200cc that can be expelled out or inhaled by the piston during outstroke and instroke resp. !! :)
2500 Cubic Centimeters... It's the volume of a cylinder or cylinders between the bottom stroke and top stroke of the piston or pistons.
The bore refers to the Inside diameter of the cylinder. The Piston will be nearly the same diameter, with the piston rings making up the difference. Convert the bore to area by multiplying by pi and dividing by four, and multiply by the stroke and the number of cylinders and you have the volume displacement of the engine.
piston displacementAdditional answerActually it means the volume in all cylinders when their pistons are at bottom dead centre. This is more than the piston displacement because there is a gap at the top when the pistons are at top dead centre.
Two liters. This is a measurement of the useable volume inside the all of the cylinders of an engine. The difference between how much space is in the cylinder on top of the piston when the piston is fully up COMPARED TO the space available when the piston is fully down. Then muliply this much volume (in cubic centimeters) by the number of pistons (4, or 6, or 8) to get total engine displacement. I had a small 4-cylinder car that had a 2.2 liter size engine.
A 2.0 liter engine means that the total volume of all the cylinders is 2.0 liters, or a different way to put it, a 4 cylinder that is a 2.0 liter has 0.5 liters of volume from when the piston is at the top of the cylinder to when it's at the bottom of the cylinder.
No a gas tank is where you store the fuel a cylinder is the housing for the piston in the engine.
Bore x Stroke x Number of cylinders = cubic inches. Another contributor says: Wrong! Right answer is: Bore AREA x Stroke x Number of cylinders. That simply means that the piston or bore AREA multiplied by the piston's movement limit is the volume of each cylinder. Multiply that by the number of cylinders. For cubic inches capacity (or volume displacement) all units of measurement must be of course in inches.
It is measured in cc (cubic centimetres) or litres. It refers to the voume enclosed by the cylinders of the engine when they are at the very top of their cycle i.e. is the largest volume possible. In a 2.0litre or 2000cc 4 cylinder car, each piston contains 0.5 a litre or 500cc's.
In the context of motor size, "liter" refers to the displacement volume of the engine's cylinders in cubic centimeters (cc) or cubic inches (ci). It indicates the total volume of the cylinders in the engine and is often used as a way to measure the engine's capacity and power output.
Calculate the volume of a single cylinder and multiply it by the number of cylinders.