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Old school C/H methods for boost applications?
Gentlemen,
I will kid you not, this is not my area of expertise but I ran into a situation today while assembling my new 428 Pontiac bracket motor. The engine is a factory 4-bolt 428 block and I am using a old 421 s/d forged crank with Eagle 6.625 floating rods. Both the pistons and rods use a .990 pin. So putting in the first couple of pistons into the motor, I noticed by eye the deck height from the piston to the block was a bit large. I confirmed by measuring it and had a WHOPPING .047. Certainly not good for a n/a motor. My good friend Jack Ferris was trying to help me figure out where the F-up was. I eventually dug out the receipt for these pistons that I bought from the late Greg Merrick (Pontiac Gregg) over a decade ago and they say 428 blower pistons. For whatever reason, I thought they had a thicker crown to go with the very heavy duty pistons. With my digital caliper and by eye centering it, these pistons have a 1.55 C/H. A Icon piston for this application (428 4in stroke 6.625 rod) has a 1.95 C/H which covers the large gap I found. My question is: Are/were blower builds built with a lower C/H instead of a dish piston?
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Johnny US Army Retired 1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 292CFM D-ports, Lunati VooDoo, V-max lifters, TKII, ATM 850 E85 carb, TCI TH-350 race tranny, 3600 converter 3.73 12 bolt 11.63@116.68mph 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1980 Formula 350 Pontiac back burner project 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac |
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In the old days, if you wanted to run a blower you dropped the piston down in the hole and ran a .055" compressed head gasket and you were around that .100" piston to head clearance. Basically no quench but also you were JUST BARELY on the safe side of the detonation area which is from about .070" to .100" piston crown to cylinder head surface.
Depending on the head ccs the compression ratio could be around 8.0 or even 7.5 to 1. They errored on the safe side in the old days with blowers. Tom V.
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Johnny US Army Retired 1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 292CFM D-ports, Lunati VooDoo, V-max lifters, TKII, ATM 850 E85 carb, TCI TH-350 race tranny, 3600 converter 3.73 12 bolt 11.63@116.68mph 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1980 Formula 350 Pontiac back burner project 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac |
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At the minimum a change in pistons and a slight hone job to get the correct fitting of the new pistons. I have weighed pistons once removed from the rods and pins and sometimes you can get away without a re-balance on the bob weight, SOMETIMES.
Tom V.
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Tough call, in truth I have always wanted and even explored going with a 6/71 or 8/71 or even a centrifugal. I have a blower cam and a blow thru 750cfm carb. Hmm...
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Johnny US Army Retired 1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 292CFM D-ports, Lunati VooDoo, V-max lifters, TKII, ATM 850 E85 carb, TCI TH-350 race tranny, 3600 converter 3.73 12 bolt 11.63@116.68mph 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1980 Formula 350 Pontiac back burner project 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac |
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PM to you
Tom Vaught
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A million years ago ( I was running high12’s) i broke a piston ( I switched heads and had too much compression for cast pistons) went to the junk yard got a piston and rod assembly with rings installed the whole assembly, switched heads(to a bigger chamber and ran it for ever!.....no balancing just swapped it out! Got lucky!
Right now I’m changing out 3 pistons.....just plug and play! LOL! GTO George |
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What's the cylinder head chamber cc's?
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John Wallace - johnta1 Pontiac Power RULES !!! www.wallaceracing.com Winner of Top Class at Pontiac Nationals, 2004 Cordova Winner of Quick 16 At Ames 2004 Pontiac Tripower Nats KRE's MR-1 - 1st 5 second Pontiac block ever! "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." – Socrates |
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Was planning on using my 74 cc KRE D-ports but I can also use the 87cc Edelbrocks.
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Johnny US Army Retired 1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 292CFM D-ports, Lunati VooDoo, V-max lifters, TKII, ATM 850 E85 carb, TCI TH-350 race tranny, 3600 converter 3.73 12 bolt 11.63@116.68mph 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1980 Formula 350 Pontiac back burner project 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac |
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GTO George |
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You have the parts. If it were me I would deck the block and keep with the same plan.. A lot of the aftermarket are down .030 or better anyway. Boosted or N/A, still ideal to have quench. I have an engine waiting for assembly which we cut .052 off the deck to get it to zero.
I also have one Pontiac engine going together that I used 428 flat top pistons, DSS c/h 1.585, but have a 4.21 crank and 6.625 rods, .98 pin. No one had the pistons design I was looking for on one of the engine projects so I started with flat tops and machined a step type head. It is one of the engines getting the main cap girdle system. Might depend on the piston, but if the crown is thick, that is another possibility. And yes...putting the blow thru carb in service sounds like a winning idea to me.... |
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The 74 cc chamber heads would probably give you about 9.x cr.
Depends on what cr you want right now?
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John Wallace - johnta1 Pontiac Power RULES !!! www.wallaceracing.com Winner of Top Class at Pontiac Nationals, 2004 Cordova Winner of Quick 16 At Ames 2004 Pontiac Tripower Nats KRE's MR-1 - 1st 5 second Pontiac block ever! "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." – Socrates |
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You could get the block decks cut - I've done .019" in the past - then use a thin steel shim/Cometic head gasket,(maybe .015" thick), and the 72cc heads. You could end up with around .045" piston to head clearance and probably 10.5 to 1 ish compression.
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If I'm reading correct your piston is .047 in the hole?
If So use a .022 gasket and deck the block .029 |
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Thank you Paul, yes the piston is .047 in the hole with these used Venolia blower pistons. Would .029 also require the intake being milled?
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Johnny US Army Retired 1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 292CFM D-ports, Lunati VooDoo, V-max lifters, TKII, ATM 850 E85 carb, TCI TH-350 race tranny, 3600 converter 3.73 12 bolt 11.63@116.68mph 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1980 Formula 350 Pontiac back burner project 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac |
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If you wanted it perfect, if you shave the block (or heads .029) , then you should shave the intake manifold flanges .029" but some have gotten away with not doing that.
Tom V.
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Get a set of longer rods to make up for the gap... of course that would require a re-balance... but it seems to be a good excuse to get a light weight set of I-beam rods...
SPEED SAFE, NICK
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I personally would not put light weight steel rods in a Boosted engine but to each his own.
Custom rods for the length are not cheap. Tom V.
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SPEED SAFE, NICK
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Thank you gentlemen for all your time and suggestions.
I've been and am still kicking this over. It seems my most logical options are: Cheapest: Have the block milled .030-.035 $180.00 locally and knowing I'll likely have to have any intake I use milled and any future build on this block will require custom pistons Not as cheap but probably the wisest: Order some new/custom pistons (Paul K) with the higher compression height and a .990 pin and hope I can get them weight matched. Another thought: Buy a set of BBC 6.660 .990 pin rods and have my crank turned down to a 2.20 BBC journal and have it rebalanced though I'm not thrilled of cutting a rare 990 forged crank that much Last idea: See if somebody wants to trade their Eagle .980 Pontiac rods for my Eagle .990 Pontiac rods and I'll match off the shelf the pistons by weight the best I can and likely re-balance... What a headache!!
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Johnny US Army Retired 1978 T/A 463 Pontiac, KRE 74cc 292CFM D-ports, Lunati VooDoo, V-max lifters, TKII, ATM 850 E85 carb, TCI TH-350 race tranny, 3600 converter 3.73 12 bolt 11.63@116.68mph 1981 T/A 4-speed 406 Pontiac, Merrick ported 6X heads, Comp 270S cam, Crosswind intake 750 Street Demon, 3.42 30 spline Eaton posi street car. 1980 Formula 350 Pontiac back burner project 1972 LeMans 350 Pontiac Last edited by Johnny406; 01-08-2020 at 04:33 PM. |
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