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Re: 250 engine build. Tommy #1448365 04/16/2022 10:56 PM
Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 5,194 Lee's Summit Mo. 64086 J Joe H 'Bolter
Joe H 'Bolter J Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 5,194 Lee's Summit Mo. 64086	I don't have any numbers, but have run into the same thing you have. The big chamfer probably decreases the compression enough that it's not worth the trouble. Try looking at a forged piston, the cast ones all seem to be chamfered. 1937 Chevrolet Inline-powered Streetrod

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250 engine build.	Tommy	04/15/2022 3:02 PM
Re: 250 engine build.	Joe H	04/16/2022 10:56 PM
Re: 250 engine build.	Tommy	04/16/2022 11:05 PM
Re: 250 engine build.	Hotrod Lincoln	04/16/2022 11:24 PM
Re: 250 engine build.	Tommy	04/17/2022 12:55 PM

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