piston CC ?

[Greg Reimer 7376]

Sometimes with a 4 eyebrow flat top piston,327 or a flat top 350,if the valve clearance eyebrows are near or at minimum, and your deck height is near minimum, piston to valve clearance becomes an issue. It then becomes an issue as which method to employ to arrive at the correct piston to valve clearance. Machining the valve clearance notches seem to be the best way to gain piston to valve clearance with the removal of the least amount of metal anyplace else. Excessive deck height gives up a lot, and since the bore diameter is always less than the inner diameter of head gasket bore openings, that would give back even more. Keeping things as close to optimum as far as the total CC's removed is the goal here.

[Greg Reimer 7376]

In a re evaluation of the 327 275 horse combo for 1968, it calls for a deck height of.002", and a head gasket thickness of .018. I couldn't find a spec for the CC's of the valve notches on the pistons. Experience has taught me that an absolute minimum of about .035" is needed between the top of the piston and the bottom of the cylinder head. I had a 327 years ago with 6 cylinders at .030", one at .028" and another at .026. After a few years of running this thing,I had it apart and noticed that those two pistons had a faint imprint that corresponded with the outline of the combustion chamber. There's no way you could have built this engine with .020" total deck height and run it over about 3000 RPM. Sometimes the engine specs are not always attainable and this is one example. The 350/295 horse has the same spec. One must always remember that despite the engine specs, the laws of physics will ultimately prevail and always win.

[mtkawboy]

I know people years back that have tried the .020 total, results were not good