Dyno testing a stock(?) 1972 440

That wasn’t an insult. Explain to me how much more money it is to build a 10.5:1 engine as opposed to the same engine at 8.5:1 because I’d like to see it.

I just did a very mild 340 with a measured 10.28:1 compression ratio. Nothing trick and it’s will run on 87 pretty easy, but I don’t like doing it.

It would have been the same money to do less compression, and it wouldn’t run early as well.

Instead of using stock used cast pistons as in my 400, for example, I would have had to buy new. Can you see that now?