Looking for 360 advice on a budget.

Cool Rumble! Lets agree to disagree on the mags then,lol..

I guess the reason that I think that a head should come with rocker gear is that is how I got mine.

Offset grinding the crank is what I meant.Doing this could possibly raise the piston as much as .020 or .030 depending. There are .060 rod bearings available for the 360,so 1/2 of that would be .030. Thin head gasket would help too,like a .024.

I plugged some #s into Desktop Dyno just as a compression calculator.

Lets assume the stock piston is .080 in the hole,which sounds about right.

Also assume an .060 offset grind to the crank. The piston now comes up to .050 in the hole.

.024 head gasket.

Stock 360 bore

Piston .050 down

65 cc magnum chamber

Now the calc gives comp ration as 10.5:1 without taking into account the dished piston. So maybe the true comp is 9.5:1. However change the chamber volume to 63 cc with a light mill of the heads and you get back another .5 of comp which brings it back to over 10:1,something like 10.14:1.

I have a 360 and magnum heads.both are too heavy to ship,lol,so I should do this for it ! Then buy a car that needs the motor..