FORUMula1.com

F1 and Motorsport Forums

Just as it says...
User avatar
By stonemonkey
#232032
Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?
User avatar
By darwin dali
#232034
stonemonkey wrote:Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?
Both are metric, so doesn't matter.
User avatar
By stonemonkey
#232036
darwin dali wrote:
stonemonkey wrote:Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?
Both are metric, so doesn't matter.
Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

EDIT: sorry, they changed it in 1964 and nobody told me. So a litre of water no longer weighs 1kg.
Last edited by stonemonkey on 29 Dec 10, 14:33, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
By darwin dali
#232037
stonemonkey wrote:
darwin dali wrote:
stonemonkey wrote:Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?
Both are metric, so doesn't matter.
Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.
Not since 1964:

A litre is defined as a special name for a cubic decimetre (1 L ≡ 1 dm3). Hence 1 L ≡ 0.001 m3 ≡ 1000 cm3, and 1000 L ≡ 1 m3 (exactly).

From 1901 to 1964, the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 °C and 760 millimetres of mercury pressure. During this time, a litre was about 1.000028 dm3. In 1964 this definition was abandoned in favour of the current one.
User avatar
By stonemonkey
#232039
yep, just looked that up and edited my post but connection seems slow today and you beat my edit.
User avatar
By darwin dali
#232041
stonemonkey wrote:yep, just looked that up and edited my post but connection seems slow today and you beat my edit.
Don't blame your connection - you were 46 years late :P:hehe:
User avatar
By stonemonkey
#232044
darwin dali wrote:
stonemonkey wrote:yep, just looked that up and edited my post but connection seems slow today and you beat my edit.
Don't blame your connection - you were 46 years late :P:hehe:
LOL. morse code would've been faster.
By What's Burning?
#232059
stonemonkey wrote:
darwin dali wrote:
stonemonkey wrote:Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?
Both are metric, so doesn't matter.
Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

EDIT: sorry, they changed it in 1964 and nobody told me. So a litre of water no longer weighs 1kg.
A liter, like a gallon is a fluid measurement, so the "weight" is really dependent on the type of fluid, the liter just a measure of mass, not density.
User avatar
By stonemonkey
#232060
What's Burning? wrote:
stonemonkey wrote:
darwin dali wrote:
stonemonkey wrote:Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?
Both are metric, so doesn't matter.
Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

EDIT: sorry, they changed it in 1964 and nobody told me. So a litre of water no longer weighs 1kg.
A liter, like a gallon is a fluid measurement, so the "weight" is really dependent on the type of fluid, the liter just a measure of mass, not density.
Yep, but up until 1964 the volume was based on how much space 1kg of water filled at 4C and 1 atmosphere pressure. Litre/liter is not a measure of mass though.
User avatar
By myownalias
#232082
What's Burning? wrote:
darwin dali wrote:Volume lads, it's volume.
Mine goes to 11.
Why not just make 10 louder? :hehe:
By What's Burning?
#232083
myownalias wrote:
What's Burning? wrote:
darwin dali wrote:Volume lads, it's volume.
Mine goes to 11.
Why not just make 10 louder? :hehe:

... but this one goes to 11
User avatar
By myownalias
#232085
What's Burning? wrote:
myownalias wrote:
What's Burning? wrote:
darwin dali wrote:Volume lads, it's volume.
Mine goes to 11.
Why not just make 10 louder? :hehe:
... but this one goes to 11
Now I want to go watch "This is Spinal Tap" :P

For the uninitiated:
  • 1
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 12
Williams Support

It has been a really disappointing season for them[…]

Austin's F1 circuit.

COTA is one of the best tracks on the calendar, an[…]

Really happy to see Max Verstappen win his first r[…]

McLaren Racing opened its new state-of-the-art Rac[…]

Swap-in out addons, use only what you really need!