4 inch stroker cam size question

I originally built this motor with a 5.9 Magnum block(don't ask what I was even thinking) with the zero deck and the biggest magnum head style combustion chamber we were at about 12.5 to 13 to 1 on compression. Probably would have been a BMF in a drag car, but I wasn't building a drag car. My buddy runs a machine shop and he's in the process of machining a 1971 360 block for me right now so I can swap my rotating assembly into it. Maybe we can back off the zero deck enough to drop the compression to a usable level.

12.5 to 13 sound more like it. Same flat top icon pistons,4" stroke on a 74 360 block that i had decked to have "0" deck and 62 cc heads came out to 12.22:1

Have you considered having the pistons dished to lower compression. instead of a hole new block?

I would call icon and see how much you could safely take off.... it's another avenue to search out.

In fact, wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a set of dished icon piston and call it good?