Raising Compression Ratio

If you don’t change the combustion chamber the milling given below will give a reasonably accurate estimate of CR using stock pistons, bore and stroke and a stock head gasket.

If you enlarge the combustion chamber by a multi-angle valve job or polishing you may need to mill the head a bit more. 'CC’ing each combustion chamber to make sure each is close to the same size is advised.

  • Mill (in) CR -
    -0.018 10.0 (Mill the head ~18 thousands to raise the CR to 10.0 to 1)
    -0.026 10.2
    -0.034 10.4
    -0.038 10.5
    -0.042 10.6
    -0.049 10.8
    -0.056 11.0
    -0.060 11.1
    -0.063 11.2
    -0.066 11.3
    -0.070 11.4