Re: compression ratio

[Richard Kinsley <rlkinsley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well it may be an up front disappointment but in the
long run you'll enjoy getting into it and putting out
some serious HP. Look at it as an excuse, 'er reason,
to change course :-)

Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies
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--- Paul Lennemann <pjlenn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> I got one head pulled off of my motor today.  I was
> pretty disappointed 
> in what I found.  My goal is to get the C.R. bumped
> up to @ 9.0:1 or a 
> little better.  What I found was that my pistons are
> down in the hole at 
> least .140".  Using the C.R calculator at:  
> http://www.csgnetwork.com/compcalc.html
> 
>  I used 4.32" bore dia.
>         3.75" stroke
>         0.25 compressed head gasket thickness (a
> guess)
>         4.40" Head gasket bore dia. (a guess)
>         88 cc's for the chamber volume (906 heads)
>          0 piston dome volume (flat top pistons)
>          0.140 for piston deck clearance
> This yields a C.R. of 8.04:1.  This was @ my guess
> for what I had.  But 
> finding those pistons that far down in the hole was
> a bit of a bummer.  
> I was hoping to be able to mill the heads a little
> to achieve the higher 
> compression I was looking for but with the pistons
> down 0.140 I don't 
> think that will get me where I want to be.
> I'm guessing if I took 0.060" off the heads it would
> drop the chamber 
> volume to @ 84 CC's.  That would only give me a bump
> of @ .23.  Not much 
> bang for the buck.  So it looks like I'm going to
> have to go into this 
> thing a lot deeper than I wanted to in order to meet
> my goals.
> 
> Paul L.
> '63 Sport Fury
> 440/727
>
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> 
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