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Clearance above piston crown.

Posted: October 30th, 2016, 11:52 am
by Piotrek125p
Hi GC & members,

Last days I studied a lot of GC site and 2010 GC book. One of the most interesting things for my is a GC pistons design. A lot of info I got from this site and book, amazing source.

Unfortunately, I have not found a infos about choosing right clearance abouve piston crown.

I got this GC tables:
CR_JC 2 liter StIII.GIF
CR_JC 2 liter StIII.GIF (24.7 KiB) Viewed 22111 times
NIX piston data.GIF
NIX piston data.GIF (23.03 KiB) Viewed 22111 times
I know that you makes a really detailed pistons project so I think that right clearance above piston crown is also important thing when you doing your projects.

In my engine I want to get a 0,40-0,50 deep clearance above piston crown. I want have it because:

- I will have some metal when I will rebuilding this engine after season or after headgasket failure
- I will have more material in pistons when I will make a dry building op
- I heard that running pistons lower makes a headgasket live easier - it is true ?

GC, could you tell me how looks your way to get a correct clearance above piston crown and what factors are important when you make this decisions.
I saw that you using different clearance from engine to engine.

Sincerely,
Piotrek.

Re: Clearance above piston crown.

Posted: November 3rd, 2016, 5:17 pm
by Guy Croft
there is no 'correct' for this and I have no back-back dyno data on the effects. There is no data anywhere, only usual internet guesswork here and there that more squish is better.

Some older engines have no squish at all!

It's 100% not practical for me to change my piston designs every single time I do an engine. I could but it would drive me and JE nuts. When I need very importat changes I do it but I don't class squish as such. There are other features that help burn rate without worrying about crown-head distance!

You must have at least 0.5mm piston to head, that I can assert. Less than that and at 7500 rev/min the 2 liter pistons will hit the head...

Beyond that if the pistons are 0.5mm low or whatever I don't care. Nor did Fiat.

G

Re: Clearance above piston crown.

Posted: November 3rd, 2016, 6:58 pm
by Piotrek125p
I will go with my Beta 1585 cast piston 0,40-0,50mm below the deck, I want to have some material for dry building in future.

Thanks for your reply dear GC, for me this thread is 100% done.