Pele, Terry, Bruce.
Just to illustrate what Terry said I have a series 2 bluebird with a wade 76
cam (quite a big cam). The engine is in OK STD condition but with the cam my
cranking compression ratio is only 110-115psi. My cam is advanced 8 deg.
Terry does this sound reasonable for cranking psi given my setup.
I really need to deck my head for some compression or get a peanut head on
the car!
Bruce you mentioned to me that Brad's car had to much compression and ran on
a bit. Do you know the cranking psi.
Regards
Trev
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From: Terry Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 21:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: compression
Pele,
Most L series NA engines have 170-180 psi @ 350 rpm (crank with wot), the
lower figure is for 8.5:1 engines, upper figure for 9.5:1 with factory CAM
and factory specs for min CP is ~160 psi. Change to a wilder a camshaft and
all this goes out the window as the CP will decrease markedly at crank rpm,
usually somewhere between 10-15%.
regards
Terry
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Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 7:19
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Subject: Re: compression
Gday
Yeah im preety dumb but i new that, but im talking about figures, when they
do that guage thing and the bloke says 120 etc.. Whats the point(number)
where
the engine is rooted. Also has the list been working for everyone else, i
got
no meassages yesterday or today until about 1 hour ago then they all strt
flooding through from the past 2 days.
Pele.
Andy Nielsen wrote:
> Barbara,
>
> If the engine has just been reconditioned I would expect very good
> compression in all cylinders. If the engine is in fair/good condition I
> would expect good/fair compression in each cylinder. If the rings in a
> cylinder are shot, I would expect crap compression in that cylinder. If a
> piston has a hole in it, you will have no compression in that cylinder.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andy.
>
> P.S. Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Subject: compression
> >Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:46:34 +1100
> >
> >Gday
> >
> >What sort of compression should you get on each cylinder with an L series
> >engine?
> >
> >Pele.
> >
>
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