Small block mileage

RustyRatRod said

I agree! What is it we've seen Jim Laroy say time and again? The difference from one point of compression to the next is only about a 3% increase?

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The less power the engine made the less % it was, the greater the power, the higher the % will be. While starting with a higher compression engine is great for hot rodding later, it isn’t a big gain and even more so on our earlier cars. Todays cars are in a different field.

Better heads or at least head flow is the key demonstration by @IQ52 AKA Jim LaRoy. On that note, it makes me wonder what the Chrysler engineers discovered when they tested the W2 heads on a 360. To bad it never was OK’d for the Little Red Express truck.

If the W2 actually flowed what the MP book and MP reported, that would have been an interesting engine to play with.

What higher compression would have delivered and quite well I think would have been a much snappier engine on he throttle.

The older 319’s were labeled at 9.0-1. I have one to take apart so maybe one day I’ll actually know when I mic it up.