What compression ratio am i runnin?
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What compression ratio am i runnin?
This seems stupid, but I just put my new heads on and they were 64cc vortechs and I had them milled .030. I heard this gets a 305 close to 10 to 1. My head gasket is a real thin stainless steel that said it was.020 thick which was the thinest I could get the not so smart parts guys to find.
Any good guess would be helpfull
Any good guess would be helpfull
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Well they are the stock pistons with the two small valve reliefs. They aren't full valve reliefs just the two half circles. The heads were 64 cc but I had .030 taken off of them to keep the compression close to stock which is like 9.3 to 1 i think.
I don't think the milling would drop more than a couple ccs, and the gasket will have dropped about half that. I couldn't see your compression being much higher than stock, if at all, unless milling reduced the chamber size more than I think.
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the milling would have dropped you in the 59 or 60cc range.
easy formula to get you in the ball park of what your compression is....do a compression test...say you get a reading of 155 now devide that by 15.1 then subtract 1...this would give you a compression of 9.2 to 1.
Compression test / 15.1
-1 =
compression
easy formula to get you in the ball park of what your compression is....do a compression test...say you get a reading of 155 now devide that by 15.1 then subtract 1...this would give you a compression of 9.2 to 1.
Compression test / 15.1
-1 =
compression
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