Piston Count - 60 (soon to drop and never get that high again)
 

A generous friend just sold me an 05 F150 for dirt cheap. I thought well I'll buy it fix the injectors and sell our other truck to do house reno's. Then I realized I've got to donate our old broken Venture minivan and get it off the property. I started to do a piston count and realized its getting out of hand. Most of my numbers are good vehicles bought way undervalue and made valuable with some TLC and elbow grease. I make an average wage just that I'm cheap and like deals and like off road vehicles too. I only buy used good machines and when I'm in the market I research and watch the adds. Most good deals are gone in under an hour. A few times Ive been able to get crazy prices.
This list includes weed whackers, lawn mowers and Nitro R/C. Oh yah and my Miata sitting in the garage waiting to be fixed............

Whats really cool is that 8 pistons are 2 strokes - ha ! No engine oil changes for those ones. 4 only have 2 wheels. 11 pistons need work and don't run.

Whats your Piston Count ?

(ps putting your hand inside a tube and pumping it does not count - too much leakdown)

Does this have to be all engines on property? Or just vehicles? What about spare motors??

I think if it's not commercial and you own it that should count.
Anyone with a turbine gets a 12 cylinder equiv.

V8 truck, 3 running 4 cylinder vehicles, 1 non running 4 cylinder vehicle. 2 spare 4 cylinder engines, 2 cylinder horizontally opposed Steiner, spare 2 cylinder engine for it...2 cylinder motorcycle, chain saw, weedwacker, pushmower, riding mower, hedge trimmer.

Yes...global warming starts directly above my house.

8 + 4 + 4 = 16

I sold all my lawn equipment a couple of years ago. I'm a job creator (i.e. I pay for local servicemen to do our yard work).

2 V8 Diesels,1 I6 Diesel, 1 Natural gas I4, 7 Miata motors (some in cars), 1275 I4, 9 single cylinder machines, Toyota I4. 71 and I have no plans to downsize.

I stopped at 82. I can recall 8 single cylinder 2-smokes, but I feel like I'm forgetting a few of the small motors

16 (2 V8's) have been sitting and currently (probably) do not run. Both could be made to run with minimal effort.

8 (2 L4's) are extra BP's.

2 are Nitro RC.

<edit> Added 4. Forgot a motorcycle.

I don't currently own any rotary engines, but how should those be counted? 1 rotor = 2 pistons?

6 cyl BMW 328Ci + 4 cyl Miata. Only 10 here :( At some point in time I've had 2 Miatas (both were turbo), Integra, and 350Z (12 + 12 + 6 cyl)

52 pistons

3 tractors
3 trucks/SUV's
2 cars
3 mowers
4 nitro r/c cars

Only V8 is the Miata :rofl:

What all are we counting here through? Pistons designed for things that move or any pistons? IE generators and power washers

3x 8cyl, 2x 6cyl, 1- 4cyl, 2 mowers, weed whacker,
43 soon to buy another motor for the miata and another car so... 51-53 in a few months.

Mower - 1
Nitro RC -1
Motorcycle - 4
Lancer - 4
Miata - 4
Mazda 3 - 4

So a lowly 18, but they're all fun. Minus the mower, which is just kinda "meh".

build this?

Jeep - 8
Edsel - 8
Miata - 4
Protege - 4
Ninja - 4
Riding Mower - 2
Push Mower - 1
Chain saw - 1

BP motors (5 out of cars, not all assembled but complete) - 20
Spare ninja motor - 4
Spare 360 Magnum - 8

Running: 32 pistons
Spare motors: 32 pistons

COME ON TRASH DAY!

truck -8
miata -4
golf -4
green car -4
pressure washer -1
240sx race car i co-own -2 (half)
spare ka24de -4
air compressors 3
30 total.

2 turbo 4 cylinders.
Miata and WRX :giggle:

4... No turbos whatsoever......I fail at cars. :giggle:

I've got all that ----, owned a miata since 2005, member here since 2007 and almost 5000 posts with no current turbo anything. I defiantly fial. :facepalm:

15 internal combustion pistons.

68 total so far.

16 are from two stroke engines.

8 pistons from the two miata motors are the only ones that do not currently run. :vash:

I am not counting any engines on my scrap pile.

Fifty two internal combustion pistons currently in cylinders.

Camaro - 8
Blazer - 6
Process of building Gen 1 355 - 8
Vortec 350 - 8
Pontiac 350 - 8
Accord - 4
Currently 42

Friend just called and told me he found a smoking deal on an LS7 (everything minus TB, PCM, and injectors) We are going halfsees and should be able to quadruple our money very quickly, So I will temporarily have anm additional very badass 8 cylinders.

Brostang: 8
Van: 6
Volvo: 4
Miater: 4
Mowers: 3
Total: 25

A whopping total of five (5) pistons, all in working order.
I have a scooter in addition to my MX-5.

4 (Miata)
4 (Sentra)
6 (Frontier)
1 (Mower)

15

Kubota Diesel Tractor - 4
Ford Tractor - 4
IH Tractor - 4
Lawn Mowers - 9
Miata - 4
Accord - 4
Bronco - 8
Spare 302 - 8
56 Buick - 8
Ford F150 - 8
Ford F100 - 8
Maxima - 6
FB RX7 - 1/2
Fiero - 6
Other junk - 5 that I can think of

So... ---- - 87.5 We need to get rid of some ----. That's not counting junk engines that don't run or have no future plans of running and should be in a scrap yard, but I'm too lazy to load and carry them away. That number probably totals over 30.

Oops, forgot the '54 Willys Jeep. 4 more.

You all sound like a bunch of rednecks with cars all over the place.

truck 8
truck 8
Miata 8
Saabata 4
BMW 6
Sentra 4
Triumph Tiger 3
Honda XL70 1
Sandrail 4
Quad 2
Tractor 4
bass boat 6
bass boat at the cabin 2
Generac generator 4
Generator 2
Skidsteer 2
Skidsteer 2
Rider mower 2

Not counting the single cylinder stuff except the XL70 because it's cool.

I really need to sell some stuff.

Let's not forget that Hustler had over 9000 posts without a Turbo on his car. So you are not failing that hard.

I currently have 20pistons in motors for vehicles that should run. 8 in the pickup truck, 8 for the 2 Miatas, and 4 for the Mazda 2.

:giggle: You guessed my correctly I think. Though I don't really consider myself a redneck, but we do have cars all over the place here. It's a shared property and I live with family, so if I were alone I'd try to keep my number under 30.

miata-4, protege-4, truck-6, outboard-4, seadoo-2, lawn equip-3, rc plane-1 (2.8cc engine), in a box-4, air compressors-6.

Everything works reliably (plane hasn't been used in years but motor is functional) and looks presentable (snowblower and weed eater excluded because fugly).

A sub total of 28 ic pistons or 34 total, wife thinks it's getting ridiculous.