Duane nailed it. Because the Chevy guys cry about quench like its death to an engine without it, Chrylser did the dirty and did it.
Same chamber as the W5 head and it is just nasty. The W5 you can weld up and help it a bunch. The W2 stuff you can't. You just learn to deal with it.
You can get quench with the open chamber heads. You just have to find a machinist who will do it the right way. Try and convince a life long Chevy machinist who has never built a Chrylser and done it correctly to stick a piston .050 or .060 out of the hole. Try that just once. Before I was doing my own machinist it damn near came to fists to get him to put my stuff out .017 and when I finally convinced him he was ignorant I made him stick them out .040 so the CR was where I wanted it without wrecking the heads.
He is doing doing engine work today and is still a dumb ***. Other people read stuff like this and then try and get it done correctly. I know he is still a dumb *** because I took a call from a member of a different forum about getting the block milled and he was using the said machinist. I told him to go back in there, face to face and tell him what you want, or you'll beat his dumb ***. He will either do it, or send you away. Either way, you can't lose. Either he will do it correctly or I can tell you where to get it done correctly.
Said dumb *** did it, but bitched about it to the point he almost took an *** beating anyway.
