Tom, Perhaps you could apply the grooving technique to this head then. Typical grooved head rule of thumb is 10:1 and under can run 87 octane. Food … er, fuel, for thought. Sincerely, Greg Taylor :) <>< And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. - 1 John 5:11-12 --- On Fri, 7/18/08, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] 232 combustion chamber - No Squish To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 2:48 PM Sandwich Maker wrote: > the '64-7 head was closed chamber, 56cc iirc. '68-'76, 66cc open. > '77-'80 [at least], 74cc open. pistons are different for each; by my > calc '77-9 slugs actually have 6cc less dish than '68-'76. Hey! I found that I have a closed-chamber head in my iron pile. It's in great shape, casting 3170717. I think it's a 64 head. (And it's got the top-end oiling fix; the far rocker bolt is drilled, 1/8" tube brazed in the top out through the valve cover for an external oil line.) Assuming it's a 56cc head, a .030" head gasket, and flat top pistons that come up .0845" below the deck, bore x stroke is 3.78 x 3.50... (30 over) area= 11.22 sq in gasket volume = .33 ci chamber volume 56cc = 3.4 ci BDC cyl volume = 39.27 ci (area * 3.5) total volume= 43.00 ci TDC cyl volume = 0.948 ci (area * .0845) total volume= 4.678 ci static ratio = 9.19:1 Anyone's opinion: is this too much for a street car on cheap pump gas? _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://splatter.wps.com/pipermail/amc-list/attachments/20080718/ba47e33d/attachment.htm _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list