How to calculate piston dish?

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MrSony

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I have looked everywhere for the past two hours. NOTHING has told me. Every. Single. Article. Every single one tells you to do that old trick with plexiglass and a syringe. Pretty hard to do when the damn engine is fully assembled in the car. Is there really now way to calculate it? I'm freaking furious. I have the measurements from the pistons I bought, https://www.summitracing.com/parts/uem-1749h-030/overview/make/buick, which is says the dish is 3.050 inches by .205 inches in diameter. Do I just multiply these two together, is there a constant number than needs to be in there? It's driving me nuts not knowing.
 

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Multiplying those won't get you anything. You need to do the plexiglass trick or find some other way to physically measure cc's. Maybe call the piston manufacturer and ask them?
 

64nailhead

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pi times radius squared times the height. And you should be furious at your High School for letting you get out of there without knowing how to find the area of a circle and volume of a cylinder.

Can you convert cubic inches to cubic centimeters that most compression calculators work in?

Edit - I figured it for you : 24.5cc
 
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