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Re: [T3] Say that again? And again?


On 21 Jan 99, at 9:09, Theo B wrote:

>   Okay I understand that.  I am wondering how putting shims under the cylinders will lower the
> CR.  In my just got off a 14 hour work day brain it seems that shims would just move the jugs
> further away from the case but not increase the compression chamber volume.
> 
>  Well the coffee just kicked in.  It would be likened to shortening the stroke, huh.
> I gotta get better hours!!

Well, it doesn't really change the stroke, since the displacement 
doesn't change, but it does do the part that I think you were 
thinking about, in that it keeps the piston from getting quite so far 
up toward the head thus leaving more volume in the head at TDC.

Jim
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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