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[melloelky]

well,i gotsa know!!

 

[Streetbu]

Yeah c'mon, we need an update. Hopefully he's not doing the dry sweep shuffle to clean up oil from a blown motor 😮

 

[UC645]

Yeah c'mon, we need an update. Hopefully he's not doing the dry sweep shuffle to clean up oil from a blown motor 😮

It’s around 6pm central, I sure hope he isn’t 😱

 

[melloelky]

tease..

 

[joesregalproject]

I'm about to start chainsmoking if we don't get an answer soon.

 

[64nailhead]

Buick 350s have circular open chambers. Plus with the small cc heads building it the sbc way at zero deck with .040 quench (head gasket thickness) and flat tops it would be over 12:1. Its a necessity to have a short piston on a sbb. The aluminum heads however have a more conventional heart shaped chamber, but still small at 55cc.

I hope you're kidding at almost .100" of quench. If you're not and you are justifying it, then I'm pissed, because you're smoking something pretty good.............and not sharing.

188hp/232tq

 

[fleming442]

 

[ck80]

How about the new over/under?

Did it need to get pushed off the dyno?

 

[MrSony]

Adjusted the poll closing time. Ends in less than an hour.

 

[MrSony]

I hope you're kidding at almost .100" of quench. If you're not and you are justifying it, then I'm pissed, because you're smoking something pretty good.............and not sharing.

188hp/232tq

Thats been the norm for Buick 350s since 1968 until about last year when the completely redesigned AL heads came out. All stock buick 350 heads have open chambers the size of the bore. No quench pad at all. As far as quench goes, it doesn't matter how far down the piston is in the hole unless you're aiming for a specific compression figure because there is no quench in the first place. 3.0/181 flat top v6 pistons give 9.5-9.75:1 compression in a stock unmilled engine, with .042 standard felpro type gaskets. TA sells .020 steel shim gaskets worth an extra half point. From what I've gathered, the piston being that far in the hole and the chamber design ends up using the cylinder walls and the piston itself as the quench pad, in a sense. But again being so far down the hole any benefits of any quench that would be had if they had properly designed chambers are completely lost.