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Subject:Re: A "Installing the heads" Question
From:Tom Young
Date:Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:11:06 -0700

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, kenneth d lewis wrote:

> Tom;
>       To the best of my knowledge the Vanagon head has no "combustion
> chamber" as such. The majority of the combustion chamber lies inside the
> dished out top of the piston. So cc-ing the heads is rather futile.

Well, I didn't cc the dish in the piston ('cause the pistons and
cylinders were already on) but it's been reported that you're looking at
about 17cc here.  On the other hand, the combustion chambers (these were
AMC heads) averaged 54.6cc's.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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