When they say 5.7 Litre what does this mean? I have googled like hell, and have asked around, no one knows the answer. I think its how much fuel the cylinders can hold at once lol! But yeah...TELL ME ALREADY!

the litre is the basic measurement for volume in metric.

the litre is the basic measurement for volume in metric.
....mark stop picking on me! When it is said in engines EX) 350 5.7L...what does the 5.7 MEAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre

A 5.7 is 350 cubic inches in volume.

1 Litre = 61 cubic inches
1 Litre = 1000 ml
1 Litre = 1000cc

Ok now it makes sense! See thats all I asked for. Thank you. Now sleep time

Litre is the same as Liter. Like was already stated, it is a measure of volume.........for ricers. Chevy has been building ricers for quite a few years now. Real Chevys are measured in cubic inches.

Ricers don't have enough cubes to measure, so they measure in litres....

get used to it the world is going to metric, actually all thats left is the US;)

we still got the gallon of milk and gas! lol

but seriously, we have been switch for quite some time now. I can't belive you don't know that. How far ahead in school are you Levi???

No offence Levi. But I think our public school system is failing us.

http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v221/worldwide_77/40-ounce-malt-liquor-colt-45.jpg40 oz =1.1826 litres

people like me currupt our system lol

No offence Levi. But I think our public school system is failing us.


they been failing on us Mark. If it wasn't for the teachers i had i wouldn't be so edumacted!!

4.5 afaik... but the internet says 3.79 L per gallon.

Hmm I seem to recall there being two kinds of gallons.. crazy imperial measurements!


and yeah, it's pretty funny when the kids are rockin out just because some guy has like 2 liters or something in his motor. And I'm like yeah.. I've got 5.
2 liters is coke!

Canada used the Imperial gallon until 1974. That was the year the Fed Gov up here brought in the metric system. The US was seriously considering changing over as well as that seemed to be the way the world was going, but after watching how it fared in Canada decided not to. In any case starting in 1977 GM used the 'liter' (US) and 'litre' (Canada) designations on air cleaners (ie, 5.7 litre on the air cleaner of the 1977 Z28, 6.6 litre on the shaker hood of the Trans Am) and it has been that way ever since. Had nothing at all to do with the ricer age we are in these days. This all started 30 years ago.

get used to it the world is going to metric, actually all thats left is the US;)

That is what Jimmy Carter said back in the 70s when he enacted the law requiring the US to change over to the metric system. The US public told him to shove it up his shorts, and now almost 30 years later, it still hasn't happened.

hey gary, next time you are at the store, look at the measurments. most will be Oz. and liter on the shelf. look at the newer cars. Metric threads and patterns. it is moving in.

oh sure there might be the US standard measurement written on it, but right beside it is the metric version. Just like the Spanish language.

L I B !!!

Ah never did knowed a mustang ranned on Colt 45 - 'bout a high octane as one a them needs.

Going back some years, there used to be what was called a 'Fifth', which was actually 4/5 of a quart, or 25.6 ounces or somethin'.

Then when things got all metric'ed up, it was replaced by the Liter.
Now, if'n y'all ever did drank a whole fifth, and later tried it on a liter... lemme tell you a question... y'all got drunker dincha?

Anyhaow, same time all them engines was bein made smaller, and like the guy said, they was 'smaller' and had to measure'em in liters, cuz you counint tell someone you had a baad motor that was like hunner an forty cubic inches, it was a 2.3 liter, like it got teknikal er somethin'.

L I B !!!

Lordy Lordy, you done got 33.8 ounces outta that thar liter which would be half a dozen shots more 'Devil Juice'!!!

Pour that in your tank. Oh, I think 4 liters makes an 'imperial gallon'???


Holy cow, I don't understand any of what you just said!:confused:

Holy cow, I don't understand any of what you just said!:confused:

thats what happens when you post while your running on Colt 45:lush:

Ill be a sophmore in college next semester. I just didnt know what the term liter or litre refered to as in engines. Mechanics couldnt even tell me. I was in all CP classes and we just goofed around all day and ate cheetos and drank soda pretty much. Or have a chick flash us, wierd fun stuff. The basic classes actually did the hw and learned something....all my teachers sucked. I graduated from Grace M. Davis which became a california distniguished school, when the board of education reps came we had streakers run through the quad woot! LOL!

do the math for 5.7L and you will find out it don't equal 350 in.^3 either.......

Well, Levi, do you know what a liter is now?? If so, I am glad we could pick up where the school left off and you maybee learned something. Eh?

You gonna make it to my place on the 27th?

I am a good teacher... so I am told;)

It's really sad that "Mechanics" didn't know what it means. IMHO if they don't know something that simple, then they shouldnt be working on cars at all.

cid, cc, liters... All pretty much tells the same thing.. It's a unit of measurement for vol. In SAE and metric

Cid and cc are better forms IMO, because liter is such a big measurement.

5.7 L could be anything from 348 cid to 353 cid

And BTW a chevy "350" really aint 350 cid, it's rounded off to 350. Real measurement is 349.8 . The "327" is really 326.7, etc. GM did that with all of theres

Holy cow, I don't understand any of what you just said!:confused:

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:


Sounds like 'ol boy's on the juice!

EZ Rule of Thumb:

Liter (Litre) = about 60 cubic inches

5.0L = 302 Ferd, 305 GM
5.7 = 350 GM
7.0 = 425ci Cadi

A liter also = 1000cc as in liter class motorcycles

In reality (my little one) I was just funnin'.

On a more serious note, all you need is the want to know. If your want to know is hungry, feed it. How something works, what makes it work, whatever. Or, if you have ingenuity synapsin' in your brain at all hours of the day and night, you will learn, something, sometime. Of course having knowledge of certain things 'scientific' or 'mathematic' makes any and/or all of it easier (lie). You know, when I was a kid, some of my buddys called me Einstien, not because I was so smart, but because I always had a need to know. I'm still brainstormin' reading, and learning. Hell, I'm almost old and I'm having a riot. Being a 'Greaser' is my passion, not necessarily greasy though. I can dig the liter thing, and my message is to keep on learning. Do your homework and you'll know how many CFM or lb fuel/hr that 5.7 Liter needs, or was it a 2.0?
Agreed my friend!! well said. we are of the same vintage..

Litre is the measurement we use in our country and my friends, they really don't know what the CI or the 350CI engine is. They only know CC and Litre.
I was able to find the bellow formula HANDY 2 years ago to get an idea about CI:
5700/350= 16.24 so every time someone says 454 CI .....
Hey it's near 7.4 L

Now only if camaros wouldnt weigh so dayam much, wed go fast.

More LITER/LITRE/LITRO
5.7=350 CI. GM
5.8=351 CI. FERD
5.9=360 CI. MOPAR
BORE X BORE X STROKE X .7854=CYLINDER VOLUME
4.00 X 4.00 X 3.480 X .7854=43.731072 CI (EACH CYLINDER)
43.731072 X 8 CYLS.=349.8485 CI...................!350!
!I wanna go to school again!

Ill be a sophmore in college next semester. I just didnt know what the term liter or litre refered to as in engines. Mechanics couldnt even tell me. I was in all CP classes and we just goofed around all day and ate cheetos and drank soda pretty much. Or have a chick flash us, wierd fun stuff. The basic classes actually did the hw and learned something....all my teachers sucked. I graduated from Grace M. Davis which became a california distniguished school, when the board of education reps came we had streakers run through the quad woot! LOL!

Take a college physics course you should have an entire section on units of measure and conversions.

Take a college physics course you should have an entire section on units of measure and conversions.

or buy a hewlett packard scientific calculator for $29 and with the left over $60k you save on tuition you can hire someone to push the HP's buttons and give you the answer ;) (sorry, being a smart@$$ comes naturally to me)

1 cubic inch = 0.016387 L exactly

Good call Marv.

Thats the talk of a good manager there!!

or buy a hewlett packard scientific calculator for $29 and with the left over $60k you save on tuition you can hire someone to push the HP's buttons and give you the answer ;) (sorry, being a smart@$$ comes naturally to me)

1 cubic inch = 0.016387 L exactly
+1^^ Spoken like a true injuneer:screwup: I own a HP48GX... my crutch;)

I have a liter snowmobile. Thing rips. Braaap Braaap.

Take a college physics course you should have an entire section on units of measure and conversions.

Back when I went to school. (the Dark Ages), they taught us that stuff in the 5th grade.

Back when I went to school. (the Dark Ages), they taught us that stuff in the 5th grade.

Me to, and I am suprised how many young people you talk to that don't basic things like, how many quarts in a gallon, how pints in a quart, how many cups in a pint, how many ounces in a cup!

no one here has ever heard of a quart, so when the manual says " 5 quarts of oil" I have to explain that's a quarter of a US gallon, which is less than a UK gallon, which also means all the trip computers on newer US cars are incorrect for judging gas mileage...

We still use a b@astardised combination of imperial (gallons/pints etc.) and metric litres.

I read somewhere that Chevy came out with the 305 because it is exactly 5.0 litres. 5 litres was the requirement for the engine in some racing circuit that I don't keep up with. All I know is that it wasn't NASCAR :)

^^SCCA I think.

Nope. the 305 is a smog motor designed and manufactured to compromize power to stay within the EPA guidelines. Remember, for every (x) number of 305 equiped cars they sold, they got to sell one high HP 454 that got like 7MPG. It's all about 'average' emmissions and MPG.
BTW.
305 Engine 3.736 bore x 3.48 stroke = 305.19 which is 5.001168 L Neither one of which are 'exact' anything.


What yout thinking of is the 302 and it's run in the CanAM racing which is really 301.59 cu. in. A very very different animal than the 305

What yout thinking of is the 302 and it's run in the CanAM racing which is really 301.59 cu. in. A very very different animal than the 305


You mean Trans-AM racing, not CanAm.

"very very different animal"....like pussycat and TIGER :)

I grew up with the imperial measurements until the early 70's when they pushed metric on us. Metric is easier to work with in my work anyway but I still convert liters to gallons and kilometers to miles to figure out my mileage. I just can't grasp that liter/100km thing. Must be an old age thing
:)
Jerry