I Might Have Found Something Pretty Cool.....

RustyRatRod said
I'm going to maximize both for what I have, yes. The block will get decked .055" for zero deck height. Pistons have a 14.5CC dish and heads are 59-60CCs. I woulfn't mind finding a thin steel head gasket, but not a deal breaker. With a .040 gasket I get like 9.1:1 which is about where I want to be. I didn't want to end up with 175 PSI cranking pressure like this engine I am running now.

I wanted to bring this back up since I changed my mind on the pistons. I just couldn't go with the dish pistons. My original intent was to build a smooth idling engine, but I've grown to really like the lumpy idle the engine in Vixen has now, plus it pulls like a beast. So I'm going back with a similar camshaft and to do that, I swapped the flat tops back on. They have a 4cc single trough valve relief. That will keep compression over 10:1 like it is now, but I will have the benefits of a good quench with the closed chamber head and all the port work and bigger valves. There's no sense in using a baby cam and low compression with a head like this. Plus, I'll also have my Clifford header added too, so the next engine should be pretty perky. Here are the pistons I am going to use. They're the non turbo piston for the 2.2 Chrysler 4 cylinder. A really thick hyper piston. I had the 198 rods resized and had ARP rod bolts put in too. These will actually sit about .007" down in the hole at TDC. That, plus the head gasket thickness will produce a good quench number.