Performance info for 170 CI

You cannot guess, assume, or use somebody else's numbers. There is way too much variation, not just across different heads and blocks but even in different combustion chambers in the same head. You must measure your cylinder head and your piston deck height to determine your starting combustion chamber volume. That's the only way to figure out how much to remove from the head (and/or the block) to arrive at the compression ratio you want.

Otherwise you are pissing (and barfing) into the wind.

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we know they are a hair short of the advertised to begin with.

and the only way you are gonna get different 'with a proved formula' when it comes to mill formula ...is IF there is a variance in the chamber diameter....yes this why there is a diff in mill formula between diff engines.....

a smaller circumference requires more removed, meanwhile a cc...is a cc.

When I did my 225, I removed .020 from the block deck and .040 from the head. Later when I went with big valves, I removed another .020.
The cam I was using was the MP.460 268*, after the forementioned milling..I had 155psi across the board, before the last .020 was removed and big valves....I had 145psi across.

I think on the street, the 155 was plenty of dynamic cylinder pressure