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Re: FW: Are u kidding me???

To: Lizirbydavis@cs.com
Subject: Re: FW: Are u kidding me???
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:06:30 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 Lizirbydavis@cs.com wrote:

>  My combustion chamber volumes are 44cc.  I figured (with stock bore) that my 
> C.R. was about 9.4:1.  If I add 3.7 ccs for the gasket, my ratio is 
> significantly less than I thought. I didn't think he was adding in the gasket 
>volume.  
> Joe Davis

You def. have to add in the volume of the head gasket to the equation -
it's  part of the combustion chamber volume!

By my calcs, you're system comes in at around 8.7:1

rml
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