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To: "'dfullam@albany.net'" <dfullam@ALBANY.NET>,
Subject: Head Games
From: Alexander Joseph H <AlexanderJosephH@Waterloo.deere.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 12:58:45 -0500
Hi Pete,

I gave the machine shop the message to remove .150  The forecast on CR
is about 11:1 with no pop-ups and 87mm pistons. 

I think I have read that benchmark on the .010 = .1 CR. Based on another
table that was developed this MIGHT be a bit conservative. (Also, our
calculations are based on 87mm pistons) We are removing a fair amount of
meat in the chamber for flow, providing another variable.

Tullius Head-I have also heard about 'knife edge heads". I also read
somewhere that Triumph made up a special casting run of heads that found
their way to Kastner & Tullius.

I'll bet somebody has more to add to this.


Finally.....4-6 inches of snow forecasted for northern Iowa starting
tonight :-(

>----------
>From:  dfullam@albany.net
>Sent:  Tuesday, April 8, 1997 9:59 PM
>To:    Alexander Joseph H
>Subject:       Head Games
>
>Hi Joe
>
>I've been following the string on head milling/CRs etc.  I remember reading
>somewhere that each .010 off the head raises the CR a tenth of a point. IE
>.125 off raises CR from 9:1 to 10.25:1.  Many many summers ago I wrenched
>for a friend who raced a Morgan +4 SS.  We built a new head and took off I
>think .180".  (This was 34 years ago!)  In the first race on it, one quench
>area warped into a little sine wave near the gasket.  Toast.  I got a look
>at Tullius' engine not long after that.  He had so much off that the lower
>flange where the pushrod tubes go looked about as thick as a razor blade.
>
>
>Pete 
>Dianne Boggess Fullam
>E-mail: dfullam@albany.net
>
>

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