70 dart swinger slant turbo build and mild restoration
This might be a dumb question but why not run the weisco pistons with stock rods and just deck the block alot!!! Then get shorter pushrods?
Bingo. I'd want custom pushrods anyway, for the thickness. I know you can mill .100 off the deck, and a fellow over on .org runs a angle milled head (.200 off spark plug side, .100 off manifold side) and if that don't get you to 8.1/8.5:1 SCR, you can overbore and bump compression by swept volume.
But, by the time you're all said and done, along with reconditioned rods (don't tell me you're gonna cheap on quality!) you're still nosing 1k. Fret not, still even more options. Unfortunately none cheaper.
Stock rods, custom piston
Molnar rods, custom piston (i've heard wiseco piston are thick enough to be machined for a 15-18cc dish)
Molnar/wiseco package, custom thick head gasket
Wiseco piston, stock rod, offset ground/welded stroker crank! (c'mon, don't build no cookie cutter slant!)
Some form of jerryrigging that ultimately leads to a time bomb which is bound to blow
I can't imagine any form of 7" rod paired with any of the forged 'slant' pistons on the market working together to form anything less than 9.5:1. Bill claims his is 9.1. Im NOT saying that he's lying, he seems about as honest as they get, but I'm in the middle of a light weight build (which consists of 7" rods and 2.2 pistons) and there never was a possibility of mine being below 9.8 (and this is with a 58cc head, which is on the larger spectrum of average) if Bill's is 9.1, that may work for him, but I would highly recommend against it on the street, especially with any 'respectable' boost level and the small, min overlap cams that tend to be used in similar builds.
Bill, would you mind digging out some measurements for us? Deck height, head cc? I think wisecos have 5cc dish, and I'm pretty sure you've said .045 over. Piston compression height for the wisecos is out on the web somewhere, and I'll try and dig up to compare to my kb pistons tomorrow. I also remember Fel-Pros being in the vicinity of .038-.039 I think...
Something that *may* be worth looking into is srt4 pistons on 7" rods (i don't remember if there is/was a forged offering for those motors)
