I have had innocent postings vanish.

It was put down to dodgy software and there is a whole thread about it somewhere.

If I'm remembering that same post, it was, as far as I recall, regarding posts going missing in between members computers/devices and appearing on the forum (and they would, in my experience anyway, eventually appear a few hours later). I'm talking about a post which was on the forum, then disappeared.

On reflection, I did say something like I wouldn’t want to buy a car that had been cleaned by some of the previous posters, but that’s hardly offensive. Or is it?

Hard to say Senexdriver, I mean it certainly doesn't appear offensive in any way to me, but it seems these days there are a multitude of people out there desperate to be offended by something!.

The Tiger Woods thread has disappeared but I suspect that was deleted on purpose, sailing too close to the wind in my view.

That's strange my post regarding car cleaning posted just after senexdrivers has gone as Well?

The Tiger Woods thread is still there - it's headed 'Hyundai Genesis - Accident'.

Like many of you, I am fed to the teeth with this stupid software, for no logical reason, hiding perfectly valid posts. and often failing to hide spam posts. (The top three sticky threads had spam in them this morning, hence the update). I will try Kalpesh again but although he does his best I'm not sure how much he'll be able to do.

I can assure you that I haven't taken down any of the posts mentioned above, although it's quite understandable that people think that I have.. They are still visible on my screen as moderator, but not when I log out and see it as you do.

I will tell Kalpesh and our editor that I am not prepared to carry on moderating the forum unless something is done.

Finally, here is the post that BBD made, that led him to start this thread.

I seem to remember when 3-pot engines appeared, there was talk of some Japanese theory that 330cc was an optimum size for a cylinder, so three made an ideal 1-litre engine ?

I don't know where you've read this but I don't buy it myself. The Japanese don't commonly use 1.0 engines themselves. The Kei car class, currently, is up to 660cc and the engines used are either 3 or 4 cyl, the original Kei cars were 360cc, so neither old nor new have 330cc per cylinder. The Toyota Century, surely the pinnacle of Japanese luxury cars, started out in 1967 with a 2599cc V8 which is indeed (nearly) 330cc per cyl, but if they thought that was the optimum size for a cyl, why would they then increase the displacement, firstly to a 3376c V8, then a 3994cc V8?. The 2nd gen cars, from 1997, had a 5.0 V12, so not 330cc per cyl. Then when the Lexus LS400 was introduced, it was a pretty much 'money no object' car, to show what they could do. But instead of using a 330cc per cyl engine, they used a 496cc per cyl V8.

When I first heard that theory it was in connection with the Ferrari 330, which had a 4 litre V12 engine although it seems the engine had been around for a few years already when the 330 came out.

I have had a ride in a 330 Spyder. I completely failed to notice the similarity when I was stuck with using a Citroen C1 for about a month. Impressive in its way but the drone got to me. I'm sure it would have been better with the other 9 cylinders.

There was no 'theory' at Ferrari re 330cc being the optimum cylinder size, it's just a coincidence. Think about it, Ferrari made their first V12 in 1947 and they have been featured in the lineup ever since, so circa 74 years. The total production time of V12 engines with a displacement of around four litres adds up to no more than 16 years.

I definitely saw that post from BBD earlier in the week.

Me too

Thanks ORB.

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