DeTomaso Mailing List: September 97, Message #335
     



From: Dan Jones <djones@thunderbolt.dfrc.nasa.gov>

Subject: Re: Pistons and Stuff

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:44:28 -0700 (PDT)



Craig,



Thanks for the piston info.  If the dish is small, then I presume

the quench characteristics would not be all that different from

a flat top.  In any case, I'm leaning towards leaving the stock

engine alone and building a spare with flat tops and Aussie heads.

If I were rational about this, I'd just jump to the stroker right

away.  But I've got all these parts.  It'd be a crime against 

nature to leave them unassembled.



I wonder how a 351C would fit in my Triumph TR7?



Thanks,

Dan



> The original pistons in my 74 P had a very samll dish too them, sorry I did 

> not measure them the last time I had the heads off.  I just recently

> changed the heads for the original open chamber to a set of closed chamber 

> heads, leaving the stock pistons in place.  I'm happy with the results, but 

> I'm still playing with it.  Sorry I can't really give a back-to-back 

> comparison on the 2 heads, it was several years between driving the car with

> the 2 heads (growing family slowed things down).











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