It means that there are 8 pistons the simataniously go up an down in the block to compress fuel while its ignited by your spark plugs
Cylinder #8 is the rearmost cylinder on the engine block. Face the engine, and #8 will be closest to the firewall.
Depends on the 8 cylinder engine you are talking about. They are not all the same.
A normal combustion engine has one piston per cylinder. So a 4 cylinder has 4 pistons, a 8 cylinder has 8 pistons, etc.
The Dodge 318 is a 8 cylinder engine.The Dodge 318 is a 8 cylinder engine.
In the engine ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANSWER The # 8 cylinder on a Ford Explorer is on the driver's side of the engine nearest the firewall - (Helpfull)
A 4.8Liter engine is an 8 cylinder engine...
6 cylinder
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drivers side of engine , cylinder nearest firewall
It is exactly what it says. The number of valves the engine has per cylinder. If you have 16 valves on an 8 cylinder engine, you have 2 valves per cylinder.
Engine types 6 cylinder 3.8 8 cylinder 5.0 and 4.4
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