360 stroker questions

Jarlaxle said

So...are any currently available aluminum heads open chamber?

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Kb356 pistons... With closed chamber heads ..all you can do is use a really thick head gasket .110 think...bad idea/compression killer... or machine the close $ide of the head$ open..or you can pull the Pistons and mill about .060 off of the quench pads and use a sd521/519 @.054 compressed gasket.
The kb416 Is zero deck.
That motor as is it's built for an open chamber and it's not even blueprinted. .080 fits in a stock 72 cc shallow side chamber and yields about .040 quench.. so even then you would want to mill the head to tighten the quench and keep some cyl pressure.
An example... I use those pistons milled .040 with milled j heads @59.8 cc with a shallow .028 chamber and a .046 crushed gasket
...so gasket minus the piston =.006 +.028=.034 quench. It's my opinion that .030-.035 quench is optimum, effective and trouble free.