5.7 Vortec CR
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Yep i remember playing with the "squish" on my snowmobile....had to get some thick solder strips and fold them over, then put it down the spark plug hole and rotate the motor over for piston to crush it. Pull it out and measure thickness, then adjust with the gaskets between the crankcase and cyl....fun times 

Many guys have done the same with our nitro 2-strokes. Personally, I always liked measuring everything with measuring tools, machining the head buttons for zero squish, then brass head shims to establish squish. This was the easiest way for me. But, then again, we have flat pistons and flat head buttons, typically with "hemispherical" bowls, or combustion chambers. I messed around with conical piston tops and matching angle squish bands, which increased the squish band area without compromising bowl diameter. This made measuring more difficult, though.
I always try and determine the similarities and differences in "speed secrets" between the two engine concepts. You'd be surprised how much they actually have in common. Physics is physics, after all. What we are burning, how we get it in and out and how we get it to burn are different, but the fluid dynamics don't change.
Thanks. Brad.
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