Inliners International Forums General Discussion Hi Performance Need piston advice

I am building a GMC 302 for my 58gmc truck. Pistons arrived, bought from an individual. When I called ARIAS, he stated those are 12:1(racing). Machinist stated that the head" was worked" already(?).The machinist is to tell me the cc's of the head. Head #'s : 2193983.I am wanting the compression around 9:1 or so to run on pump gas.
What can I do now?

Thanks in advance

Many of the big port 302 heads are around 120-ish CC's, so you may be able to trim and profile a considerable amount of dome off of them. I have spent many hours doing the same thing to raw "blank" dome racing pistons before. If the pistons are a "hollow dome" style you may be limited as to how much can be whittled off of them, depending how big the dome ends up being volume-wise. You'll need to CC a piston dome in one of the cylinders to calculate the compression once you CC a combustion chamber. You'll also need to know the piston deck height in the block as well to make your calculations.

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