How many cylinders have you

[Tom Bender]

4 Car
4 SUV
1 Lawnmower
1 Snowblower

8 total

[lowell holmes]

What kind of cylinders are you talking about?

[Jim Becker]

8 Grand Cherokee MY12 (4 when cruising)
4 Subaru Outback MY16
4 Subaru Outback MY11
3 Kubota BX-22 MY02
2 SCAG FreedomZ MY 06

21 not including the two air compressors. :)

[Tom M King]

It would take me a long time to count them. To start with, 11 in Stihl equipment alone, if I'm not forgetting something.

[Peter Kelly]

Feels like I’m firing on two today.

[Jim Becker]

It would take me a long time to count them. To start with, 11 in Stihl equipment alone, if I'm not forgetting something.

Oooh...I forgot those tools.... LOL

[Mike Cutler]

Feels like I’m firing on two today.

Yeah, I think I'm "throwing a few codes" today also.

Truck-8
Cars-2x4
Lawn tractor 2
Generators 2+1
Snowblowers1x2
Weed whacker-1
chainsaw-1
leaf blower-1
I think that's 26
Oops wait,
2 Air compressor 3+1.
Total =30.

[Bruce Page]

23 counting the shop compressor.

[Scott T Smith]

Close to 200 (and I probably missed some).

GMC Jimmy - 8
Diesel engine Welder - 4
Mower - 2
Chainsaws - 6
Weekwackers - 2
Driveway blower - 1
Pressure washer - 1
Water pump - 1
log splitter - 1
Slabber - 2
Peterson sawmill - 2
Baker Sawmill - 3
Cat Backhoe - 4
Skid Steer - 4
Blue Dump Truck - 8
Red Dump Truck - 8
2nd Red dump truck - 8
Harley - 2
Backpack blower - 1
Handheld blower - 1
Big loader - 6
25 ton Crane - 8
10K Generator 1 - 3
10K generator 2 - 3
2K generator - 1
225 KW generator - 6
5.5 kw generator - 1
9KW Generators 8
12KW generator - 4
F350 dump - 8
F450 1 - 8
F450 2 - 8
Excursion - 8
Canyon - 4
GMC 5500 1 - 8
GMC5500 2 - 8
Freightliner - 6
Kioti Tractor - 6
New Holland Tractor - 4
JD Tractor - 4
Hinomoto tractor - 4
Motor Grader - 6
IR Air Compressor - 2
CH Air Compressor - 2
CAT air compressor - 2
Sanborn air compressor - 1
Thompson air compressor - 1
Power Broom - 1
Tamper - 1
Old Tamper - 1

[Bill Dufour]

13 on the wifes suv
14 on the pickup with a 4 cylinder engine
we are including lock and brake cylinders aren't we?
Bill D.

[Aaron Rosenthal]

6 in the B3000
6 in the Odyssey
One each in the compressors
2 in the Harley.

[Tom Stenzel]

13 on the wifes suv
14 on the pickup with a 4 cylinder engine
we are including lock and brake cylinders aren't we?
Bill D.

The man said cylinders!

Am I including the cans of white chili stowed away? The cans are definitely cylinders and they pack a punch!

But, if we're just going with boring IC engines:

My van: 6
Wife's car: 6
Daughter's car: 4
Two mowers, 1 each: 2
Snowthower: 1

Someone else will have to total I don't have enough fingers and toes.
-Tom

[Bill Dufour]

I think the car ac compressors have something like 6 cylinders each. the antilock brake system has a lot. Not sure how fuel pump works I think it is a gear pump.

[Kev Williams]

--I'm only counting cylinders that fire within an ICE:

motorcycles/ATV's: 4+2+1+1+1
cars & truck: 8+8+8+6
yard stuff: 1+1+1+1
boats: 8+2x4+2x6+4
various generators: 1+2+3
motorhome: 6 big ones

[John Schtrumpf]

4 + turbo: Subaru WRX TR

[Rod Sheridan]

Car 6

Motorcycle 2,2,2,2,2,1

Sawmill 1

Snowblower 1

Regards, Rod

[Grant Wilkinson]

I feel positively outclassed here. :-)

I have 6 in my SUV, the wife has 4 in her Impreza and I have 1 on the snowblower.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Somewhere a politician is reading this thinking of a new way to tax....

I think Scott wins, but we also know that Rod has lots of motorcycles!

[Pat Barry]

Truck = 8
SUV = 4
Boat = 3
Small boat = 1
Snowblower = 1
Lawnmowers = 1x2
Leaf blower = 1
Weed whipper = 1
Edger = 1
Chainsaw = 1
Compressor = 2
25 total

[Marc Jeske]

"Cylinder Index" origin .,,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_Logic

[Michael Weber]

I'm not sure at all as my wife keeps mumbling about me not running on all cylinders.

[Doug Garson]

Nobody noticed that 4+4+1+1= 10?

[Martin Wasner]

4 + turbo: Subaru WRX TR

TR?

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[John K Jordan]

I read once that the number of cylinders you controlled was some kind of evidence of one's masculinity. I added up 54 at the time but it didn't make me feel a bit different.

Perhaps a better metric is how many animals you take care of. Get out and feed horses and such in the driving rain, ice storm, or burning sun...

[Lee Schierer]

Autos - 14
Lawn mowers - 6 ( I need to get rid of at least two of them)
rototiller -1
snow blower - 1
wood chipper - 1
Boat - 4
RC airplane - 1

Total - 28

[Brian Elfert]

I have 30 cylinders if I counted right. Only one car in there.

[John Schtrumpf]

4 + turbo: Subaru WRX TR


TR?

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TR = Tuner Ready. In 2006/2007 Subaru made a WRX with all the performance parts, with the base Imprezia interior and exterior trim.

[Kev Williams]

I'm surprised that no one has listed a snowmobile--?

[Adam Herman]

hmm...
truck - 8
car - 4
tractor - 2
small equipment- 2

[Mike Chance in Iowa]

I'm surprised that no one has listed a snowmobile--?

I haven't finished counting yet. :)

[Steve Peterson]

4 Car
4 SUV
1 Lawnmower
1 Snowblower

8 total

Everyone is running around counting their cylinders, but nobody seemed to notice that 4+4+1+1 equals 8. :)

[John K Jordan]

I'm surprised that no one has listed a snowmobile--?

What's a snowmobile? :)

Not much use around here where a big snow is more than one inch and is gone the next day. We get snow maybe 2-3 times a winter.

I have seen two snowmobiles over the years. One was in storage, brought from the frozen north by a guy who mistakenly thought it would be useful here. The other was cutting donuts in a street during the ice storm of 1982. Probably hasn't been used since.

JKJ

[Doug Garson]

Everyone is running around counting their cylinders, but nobody seemed to notice that 4+4+1+1 equals 8. :)
Check post #22.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

I'm surprised that no one has listed a snowmobile--?

Or a boat???

[Lee Schierer]

Or a boat???

I mentioned my boat....see post #25

[Steve Rozmiarek]

I mentioned my boat....see post #25

I missed that! More coffee is apparently in order...

[michael langman]

Or a rototiller.

[Kev Williams]

Or a boat???

I mentioned four of them, actually :)

[James Baker SD]

Do rotatory chambers count? They explode gasoline and air. If they count, then 11 (4,4 & 3).

[Julie Moriarty]

8 on the Grand Cherokee
1 on the lawn mower
1 on the pressure washer
5 on the jars of jalapenos

[michael langman]

20 on 2 cars and truck
3 on 2 lawn tractors
1 on snow thrower
1 on compressor
1 on walk behind rototiller
1 on generator
I on weed whacker

[lowell holmes]

Back in the day when I had my first car, I had six cylinders, then I graduated and got a job and I had eight, a new 59 Corvette.

I grew older and had 12, 8 on the car I was driving and four on the motor in my 34 foot sloop.

Then I met the love of my life, sold the boat, and now we have 12, six on my F150, and six on my wife's station wagon.

I am in my second childhood and that Ford Mustang sure looks tempting.

I'm just dreaming, SWMBO would never tolerate it. :)

[Roger Feeley]

6 in the car
1 in the lawn tractor (maybe two)
2 in the compressor
Heat pump uses one of those spiral thingys. Does that count?

I seek a cylinder free life.

[Rick Potter]

Ahhhhhmmmmmmm.

If you need to count, you are insecure...which is another cause for man card recall.

Male pattern cylinder envy.



PS: If an engine has a 6" bore and 6" stroke, and the piston is half way down on the power stroke.....how far down in the CYLINDER is it??

Actual question I was asked on a job interview. I passed.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Somewhere a politician is reading this thinking of a new way to tax....

I think Scott wins, but we also know that Rod has lots of motorcycles!

...or one motorcycle with a very large engine.
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[Malcolm Schweizer]

PS: If an engine has a 6" bore and 6" stroke, and the piston is half way down on the power stroke.....how far down in the CYLINDER is it??

Actual question I was asked on a job interview. I passed.

Depends on where you have the timing set, because technically the power stroke would start at ignition, which starts advanced of TDC based on how far advanced the timing is set.

[Jim Andrew]

Think I have 95. Including 5 trucks, 4 tractors, skidsteer, wife's car, 1 combine, 2 atv's 1 motorcycle, a generator welder, the sawmill, 4 chainsaws,, 3 lawnmowers, a self propelled sprayer, 1 log splitter, and 2 tillers. Probably forgot something.

[Marty Gulseth]

Let’s see...

pickup - 8
SUV - 4
motorcycles 2X2=4 (BMW boxer engines)
lawn tractor - 2
outboard - 4
trolling motor - 2
miscellaneous (1 each) - 4; generator, line trimmer, chainsaw, blower/vac.
compressors (3 each) - 4

So - 32!

[Steve Rozmiarek]

I mentioned four of them, actually :)

Lol, as yesterday progressed, it became obvious that lack of coffee wasn't the problem, my "A" game was just MIA.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

...or one motorcycle with a very large engine.
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Wow, now that made me do a double take! LOL!

[Bill Orbine]

I'm still counting.........

[Martin Wasner]

TR = Tuner Ready. In 2006/2007 Subaru made a WRX with all the performance parts, with the base Imprezia interior and exterior trim.

Weird.

I'm trying to decide my next beater car. Currently have a wrx, in not sure what to replace it with.

I really want the RS6 Avante when they bring them here, but u think they'll be too far out of my budget. Was kicking around a used gtr, but I think the upkeep is going to kill me. Seriously considering a CTSV wagon

[ChrisA Edwards]

Wifes BMW = 6
My truck = 8
Honda CB400F = 4
Yamaha R1 = 4
Bimota Db2 = 2
Aprilia Tuono = 4
Ducati 1098S = 2
Ducati Multistrada = 2
Ducati 1299S = 2
KTM 640 = 1
KTM 250XCW = 1
Lawnmower = 2

Total = 38

[Osvaldo Cristo]

Close to 200 (and I probably missed some).

GMC Jimmy - 8
Diesel engine Welder - 4
Mower - 2
Chainsaws - 6
Weekwackers - 2
Driveway blower - 1
Pressure washer - 1
Water pump - 1
log splitter - 1
Slabber - 2
Peterson sawmill - 2
Baker Sawmill - 3
Cat Backhoe - 4
Skid Steer - 4
Blue Dump Truck - 8
Red Dump Truck - 8
2nd Red dump truck - 8
Harley - 2
Backpack blower - 1
Handheld blower - 1
Big loader - 6
25 ton Crane - 8
10K Generator 1 - 3
10K generator 2 - 3
2K generator - 1
225 KW generator - 6
5.5 kw generator - 1
9KW Generators 8
12KW generator - 4
F350 dump - 8
F450 1 - 8
F450 2 - 8
Excursion - 8
Canyon - 4
GMC 5500 1 - 8
GMC5500 2 - 8
Freightliner - 6
Kioti Tractor - 6
New Holland Tractor - 4
JD Tractor - 4
Hinomoto tractor - 4
Motor Grader - 6
IR Air Compressor - 2
CH Air Compressor - 2
CAT air compressor - 2
Sanborn air compressor - 1
Thompson air compressor - 1
Power Broom - 1
Tamper - 1
Old Tamper - 1

I was wandering on the tons of CO2 generate yearly by most of those cylinders!

[Phillip Gregory]

8 - 5.0 Coyote in an F-150
6 - 3.5 Hurricane in an Explorer
2 - Kohler 747 in a zero turn mower
1 - rototiller
1 - chainsaw
1 - pushmower
1 - string trimmer
1 - leaf blower
1 - air compressor
1 - Super Redhawk .44 Magnum :D

[Yathin Krishnappa]

1 - Super Redhawk .44 Magnum :D

If you want to include those kind of cylinders then I’m sure a lot of folks here will run into several hundreds. ;-)

[Doug Walls]

Close to 200 (and I probably missed some).You could probably double that figure if you counted all the hydraulic cylinders on your equipment list. :)


Counting hydraulic cylinders I'm probably somewhere near 40

Chevy Truck 8
Chrysler PT Cruiser 4
4 Air Compressors = 6
Lawn & Garden Equipment including snow blowers & chainsaws 12
Hydraulic jacks & lifting/pressing equipment 10

Doug

[Scott T Smith]

You could probably double that figure if you counted all the hydraulic cylinders on your equipment list. :)

Doug

Good grief - I do believe that you’re right! LOL.

[Scott T Smith]

I was wandering on the tons of CO2 generate yearly by most of those cylinders!

Fortunately I don’t run them all at the same time!

[Tony Pisano]

4 car
1 lawnmower
1 rototiller
1 oxygen
1 acetylene
1 argon/CO2

[Jim Andrew]

I'm guessing my farm uses up more CO2 than I produce with my machines. CO2 is great for plants.

[Kevin Beitz]

Oh my God.... I don't think I could count them all. At one time I had over 3000 small gas engines and 30-40 garden tractors not counting hit and miss engines and steam emgines and gas remote airplane engines and.....

[Rob Luter]

Three cars with four each = 12
Push Mower - 1
Riding Mower - 2
Two Leaf Blowers - 2
Power Washer - 1
Snow Blower - 1
Hedge Trimmer - 1
Chain Saw - 1

So 21 total

[Matt Marsh]

The "CI" originated with Joe Soucheray on his Twin Cities radio show called "Garage Logic". The cylinder index can only include internal combustion cylinders, not hydraulic cylinders or compressor cylinders.

Here is a direct quote from the "Garage Logic" dictionary...


C.I. (Cylinder Index)

"The total number of internal combustion cylinders in your possession. (vehicles, gas powered equipment, marine and aviation all qualify). If it is less than your age, move on to Euphoria. "

I interpret it to exclude air-pistons/pumps and/or graduate cylinders. We're talking combustion power here !!

For those interested in the full https://www.skornorth.com/shows/garage-logic/the-gl-lexicon/ , it is quite humorous. Some of the terms/locations are local references to areas around the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, but most are general terms & philosophies of Garage Logic.