how do four cylinder engines have a six gear shifter
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The number of cylinders does not have anything to do with the number of gears.
The number of cylinders is how many different explosion chambers there are in the engine. More chambers means you get more booms per revolution which means more power.
Gears are about translating the number of engine rotations to tire rotations. Because your engine is a bunch of moving parts, it has a minimum number of rotations it needs to do to prevent stalling out, and a maximum number it can do before it’s moving to fast to work properly. However, that range in engine RPMs doesn’t cover the whole range in speeds you want to travel, so we use gears to change the ratio between the number of engine rotations and number of tire rotations. Changing gears simply changes the ratio between engine rotations and tire rotations.
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