More Small Block Questions

take 1/2 the stroke...3.31/2=1.655
plus rod length 6.123

plus the compression height of the piston...1.72 as noted in 1st post...

1.655 + 6.123 + 1.72 = 9.498.....

so if the block is at 9.60....your pistons will be down .102 in the hole


Okay, so lets say my machinist zero decks the block to those pistons. Isn't .102" a lot to take off the deck???