<VV> Fwd: I found this interesting ...

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/20/09 9:11:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Scotty  Grover 
writes:

 
In a message dated 3/20/09 3:08:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
lechevrier at earthlink.net writes:

taking  a engine core apart, you know how one finds stuff they don't 
expect,  seems someone took off the smog heads, meaning the motor still 
had the  high top pistons in it, and bolted on stock late 95 hp heads 
with a  stock head gasket, and it appears the engine actually ran, in 
spite of  the 0.00" squish clearance.  I suspect it may have been a bit  
noisy, but there sure wasn't any carbon build up where the head and  
piston met, and with just the heads off, it looks like there's no  
serious damage ...

who'd a thunk ...

Bill  Strickland



No problem---I installed smog pistons on a '65 140 HP engine--had no  
problems with contact until a rebuilder decided (without telling me) to  relieve the 
heads--then I had a problem with power loss.  The next time I  had the engine 
rebuilt, smog pistons were no longer available, so now I have a  
low-compression head (means I can run on 1/2 89 octane  and 1/2 91 octane  but I (due to 
age or whatever) don't try to drive with maximum foot-to-gas  pedal accelaration.
 
Scotty from Hollyweird



 
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