four-banger

four-banger

A name for a four-stroke (or four-cycle) engine, as is found in many cars. I need to get my four-banger tuned up one of these days.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

4-banger

n. a four-cycle engine. (see also banger.) Your 4-banger shouldn’t be so loud. How’s the muffler?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • 4-banger
  • four bits
  • four-bits
  • four wheels
  • four-topper
  • topper
  • four
  • on all fours
  • four-leaf clover
  • all fours
References in periodicals archive
Empty-nesters or first-time-buying singles seeking cargo-carrying options and occasional extra passengers could suffice with the four-banger.
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This four-banger is capable of generating 305 horsepower at 6,500 rpm and a massive 400 N-m of maximum torque available between 2,500 to 4,500 rpm range.
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of torque, a turbocharged 1.4-litre four-banger that generates 138 hp and 143 lb-ft.
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The base Cherokee has a 2.4-liter four-banger, a 184- horsepower engine that, frankly, seems dreadful.
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The standard four-banger engine has variable-valve timing that puts out 185 hp and stills gets you reasonably good gas mileage (18 city and 24 highway).
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But out on the unpatrolled interstate, just where youAAEd figure the little four-banger would feel soft in the kippers, the Mazdaspeed3 flat-out motors.The intercooled and turbocharged 2.3-liter puts all its 280 pound-feet of torque on line at about 3,000 rpm and, in third gear, itAAEs nothing but guts and go.
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Those figures, however, can drop noticeably during interstate driving, when the gasoline engine is needed to supplement power; even its relatively small 1.5-liter four-banger will consume a moderate level of fuel at higher speeds.
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This little econobox doesn't get its punch from some steroid-boosted turbocharged four-banger. Shoe-boxed neatly between the front struts is a 240 hp, 3.2L V-6 that's hooked up to Volkswagen's 4MOTION system sending that power to all four wheels.
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That "American four-banger piece of crap with a kind of funky smell" got them as far as Rosarito, Mexico, and back to Cottage Grove before dying, Norris said.
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Lutz noted that when you consider the materials for a vehicle, the costs for a run-of-the-mill four-banger and the costs for an apsirational roadster are probably about the same.
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And much like an everyday four-banger, the RCV's power curve climbs steadily upward from 4,000 rpm until it levels off near 8,000.
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But it's still a four-banger. It could sound a whole lot more aggressive.
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The new four-banger is also equipped with electronic throttle control and shares the V-6's E67 engine control module.
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It's easy to say after his playoff miss, which came following his four-banger game against the Lions, that there's no way the Bears can do that.
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