How many pistons do you own?

2 cars= 8
1 Harley= 2
1 tractor= 2
1 portable gen= 1
1 chain saw= 1
Wouldn't own a boat

Ah the simple life.

79, but it's less painful if you count the number of engines, and my son made me do that.

What if one of your engines doesn't have pistons?

I'm at 30, not including a squirrel cage with an igniter and I'm trying to lower that number. I'm not sure why it took me so long to understand a simple dynamic... you never really own anything. It owns you.

My list...

1. I'm a bonafide, skoal-spittin', rebel flag flyin', Winchester cockin' owner of a diesel pickem-up truck. Piston count: 8

2. The polar opposite competitor for garage space is what some call the 'thinking mans Ferrari'; a Honda that sent Enzo's disciples back to school. On the way-to-rare Sunday morning drive, it turns back my biological clock for fleeting moments. I'm not really a thinking man. I'm just a wannabe. Have to get banners rates up! Piston count: 6

3. Originally shown as a concept, about the same time Florida repealed it's skull preservation law; a monstrous V-Twin, packing a walloping 1800 cc's found it's way to Honda showrooms and I was first in line to raise my middle finger to Milwaukee. Piston count: 2

4. I'm a 12 time recipient of the Mercury Guinni pig award program, with at least 24 contributions to Fond du Lak's economy. Currently have 2 old school, 3.0 litre motors that I can strip to a bare block in less than a day, given a cherry picker and a six-pack. Piston count: 12

5. In another life, I flew helicopters with my feet firmly planted on the ground. Although it's been years, I've always had trouble squeezing into them. Piston count: too frickin' tiny to be included.

6. In yet another life, right out of an episode of the X-Files, I have another helicopter. It doesn't have a piston, but the sound will make your heart thump. Especially if you bury it!

I'm 30 pistons away from lithium and magnets.

You really only rent pistons. You never really own them. 'cause I got a couple a boxs of pistons, well sometimes only a half of one, if you really want to start counting!

Come on CTdave, I have so much sympathy for your predicament with the boat at the moment, but, Mate, to start comparing pistons when you know you are so far ahead of us is just ..... unkind!!!
Anyway it's not how many you have, it's the length of the STROKE!

i don't have time to count it all up at this time, but it is a lot...

2 d398's
3 d399's
10 3412's
1 3508
1 3512
2 3516's
8 3406's
3 3408's
14 c 9's
3 4clynders
1 merlin v 12
1 cont io 540
1 yanmar in line 6
1 yanmar 4 cly
2 sea doo's
15 truck's with v 8's gas and diesel
2 3306's
1 jd 5 cly
1 c 18

this is all i can think of off the top of my head, plus personal cars.
it give's me a headache just thinking about my fuel bill

travler

If you are gonna count chain saws and weed whackers, I'm up to 116.
Then add the " ones in a box" thats another 6 I can think of...

When it comes to maintanence,you don't own things, things own YOU.

I'll pass on this exercise.

Don't feel like counting the ashtrays, too.

Reading between the lines, are you using pistons for ashtrays? I have a piston from a Merlin that I've used for an ashtray during parties. Great conversation piece! I've gotten good mileage out of that piston. Convinced one chick it came out of a rotory engine.

Maybe the question should not be how many pistons you own, but what kind of condition they're in. Hope not like this one.

Mate, never looked at it as a brag, just having a laugh with you as I wanted to write a sympathy post to your other thread regarding engine problems. I think at sometime many of us wonder "what the hell am I doing this for?"
To which I have no answer.
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