Alright, I went back to the machine shop to discuss the piston. He basically said he doensn't think it will be an issue considering he doesn't think the CR will go that high. I told him i'd go do some maths and get back to him on that...

 

So, I just did a "ghetto" CC measurement of the combustion chamber (using a syringe, some gatorade, a straight edge level and a toothpick).

 

The results were:

 

The combustion chamber is approx 30-33cc

 

Removing 2mm from the combustion chamber makes it approx 21-24cc

 

Using this compression calculator:

 

http://www.csgnetwork.com/compcalc.html

 

And the associated required information -

 

Bore x stroke - 85mm x 60mm

Gasket bore - 85mm (measured it)

Compressed headgasket thickness - 2mm

Piston dome volume... Zero I presume, but there is a little space around the edge of the piston, possibly worth a couple cc

Piston deck clearance - 0 (its flush with the deck)

 

The worst possible scenario i've come up with is a CR of 11.5:1

 

The best possible scenario i've come up with is a CR of under 10.0:1

 

An average of the two puts it in the mid-high 10's, 10.5:1 or so.

I don't think 10.5:1 is too high for premium pump gas. Sounds like you have more knowledge there than I have.

The machine shop did say they could "dish out" the piston of CR ends up being too high.

I just double checked something, realized I made a couple errors.

 

1) The EA63 1400 2-port head has a slightly LARGER compression chamber. That was the head I was using for CC measurements because its still assembled:

 

 

What that means is that the CR is probably higher than I calculated. Probably about 5% less CC is my guess.

 

2) The piston isn't completely flush with the deck, its about .5mm lower (checked with a straight edge and feeler gauge... not perfect but worked)

 

 

So I'm going to run some calculations again to see what I come up with...

The uneven port overlap will indeed hurt overall airflow, but just look at the flow path once it gets past there. IIRC, the EA81 head has 12 turns from intake gasket to exhaust gasket. Ideally, there would be less than five.

I was taking pics and realized I didn't have any showing the intake/exhaust port flow of this head, so here you go:

 

 

That makes for a total of THREE turns for the intake from the carb to the combustion chamber. The exhaust port is one turn, basically straight out the side.

 

Plus, I took pics of the gaskets for your amusement... The exhaust gasket could actually be matched a little better:

 

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Edited April 21, 201015 yr by True2Blue

RAM is quite expensive, more expensive than my local machine shop that can do basically the same things (minus the fancy pullies and what not)

Can't wait to see a post saying its running.

Can't wait to see a post saying its running.

Hey shawn!

 

Its probably going to be awhile...