I just used Summit Racing's compression calculator. Going with a cylinder head volume of 72 CC's (I won't know for sure until I see which head I'm going to use and if it needs planing), bore of 3.935, stroke of 3.53125, 2.76 cc dish, .041 compressed head gasket size, and 0 deck clearance I come up with 9.49:1 compression ratio, which is exactly where I want to be. Can someone verify my findings, or am I missing something again?

Now that I have my 250 crank, I should be able to bring it and my rods up to be balanced. I can also have the deck height set accurately since I will have my rotating assembly there. I may ask the machinist to check the deck measurements out of my own curiosity to see how close it is to the "assumed" measurements I had earlier.

I would again like to thank all who have helped thus far. This project is years away from being anything, but it's fun to plug away at and since I'm not in a rush I have time to figure out more details.