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Old 08-11-2014, 02:04 PM   #24
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Re: broken rocker arm stud

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Originally Posted by Captainfab View Post
If those are indeed 882 castings they will have ~76cc chambers. If you have flat top pistons that will give you around 9:1 static compression. Then if you figure in your big cam, your dynamic compression will be way too low.
Its not bad enough that he wants to use too much cam. Now he is installing ported heads with larger combustion chambers to further increase the incompatability. The way I understand it this is a street engine. Why build a street engine with a hodge podge of hish RPM race componets. And all on a 307 small cube engine. So when something isn't designed to work together fails he starts a new thread. Why a New Thread? Until he pulls that cam and installs something streetable that engine will never give service. I don't care that his buddy has the same setup and it runs like gangbusters. What I will suggest is he obtain a copy of Smokey Unicks book on building the small block chevy and read it three times before he ever turns another bolt.
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