<VV> 1965-1967 110HP with a/c low compression engine

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/24/2006 8:39:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
BobHelt at aol.com writes:

Tony,
The bowl heads, as you called them, served their  purposes.

For the turbo engines, these heads allowed max hp to be  developed as  they 
didn't have the restricting squish area. With the  turbo, turbulence was  
sufficient without the squish. In other words,  the turbo provided the 
turbulence  and 
the squish wasn't needed to to  that. These heads were only used on the  
1964-66 turbo engines and  had a "real"CR of 8.01 which was lower than the 95 
 heads 
with 8.28  CR.

The open chamber heads, used on the AIR engines also served their  purposes  
in that they lowered the unburned hydrocarbons present in  squish heads.

Regards,
Bob Helt



But weren't the so-called squish heads fairly open?--I seem to recall that  
one of the more effective ways of reworking the heads was to mill down the  
surface facing the piston so as to reduce the depth of the squish so as to  
REALLY make it squish the combustionable gases and leave less of them to form  smog.
Scratching my head,
Scotty