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Old 11-24-2007, 01:40 PM
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I have found some World Products Windsor SR. 64cc 2.02 valve heads with about 600 miles on them for 600 bucks. I want to put them on a stock bottom end (with Arp rod bolts). I come up with a compression ratio of 10.06:1
This is using 4cc as the piston valve relief and .01 for deck clearance. Does this sound right? It seems high to me. Stock is way lower than that.

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Old 11-24-2007, 01:52 PM
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IIRC the 87+ e7 stock 351w heads are 65cc combustion chamers and have an 8.8:1 CR

I pulled those number out my as$ but to the best of my knowledge they are correct
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Old 11-24-2007, 02:02 PM
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thats why i think my math is wrong:

4x4x3.5x12.874= swept vol 720.74
64+9.5 (gasket)+4cc(reliefs)+2.05 (deck clearance)=79.55
800.29/79.55=10.06

am i doing something wrong? is the relief number wrong or deck clearance wrong?
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Old 11-24-2007, 07:52 PM
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thats why i think my math is wrong:

4x4x3.5x12.874= swept vol 720.74
64+9.5 (gasket)+4cc(reliefs)+2.05 (deck clearance)=79.55
800.29/79.55=10.06

am i doing something wrong? is the relief number wrong or deck clearance wrong?
One, where in the hell are you getting that number?

If what you have done is correct, 720.74/79.55=9.06

Unless I am missing something, I have no idea how 64cc heads on a stock lower end can give you 10:1 compression.
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Old 11-24-2007, 08:09 PM
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This is a good online calculator
http://www.csgnetwork.com/compcalc.html

I came up with 8.8 using following numbers, and that sound right to me.

4" bore
3" stroke
4.10 hg bore
.041 compressed thickness
64cc heads
-4cc pistons
0.010 deck height
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Old 11-24-2007, 11:17 PM
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ok, its a 351W. doesn't that have 3.5 stroke?
here is where the numbers come from:
swept volume+total chamber volume = compression ratio
add720.74 to 79.55 which equals 800.29. then you dividethat by 79.55.But I see now that this gasket number I got from somewhere is WAY wrong. Either way, I got this info out of a HP book and it is way off i guess.

now i'm really confused.


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Old 11-25-2007, 09:05 AM
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ok, oops, you have a stock 351 bottom end.

dont worry about all those formulas, just use the link.

with 3.5" stroke the 351 has, I came up with 10.1 compression
with .03 over bore more like 10.2 to 10.3
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Old 11-25-2007, 11:30 AM
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k, thats very much. I'm picking up those heads today. I wish I could go all out for aluminum, but until i win the lottery, these world castings should be a hell of a lot better than stock heads.
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