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Projects 8ba cylinder head questions

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by CJ95, Oct 27, 2025.

  1. Ziggster
    Joined: Aug 27, 2018
    Posts: 2,947

    Ziggster
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    Yeah, compared to my stk cast iron C59A heads, they look like they have much less volume. IIRC, with my 0.060” overbore, with stk crank, my CR was somewhere between 7:1 and 7.5.1.

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  2. Petejoe
    Joined: Nov 27, 2002
    Posts: 12,614

    Petejoe
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    from Zoar, Ohio

    No fancy heads on this one…
    But I couldn’t ask for a better engine.
    It just sounds pissed off.
    59L Engine
    Bored .120 over
    Offenhauser pistons and rings. Clay Smith camshaft. 282 duration. .325" lift. Ford exhaust valves. Oversize intake valves. Zephyr valve springs. Iskenderian lifters. Melling high volume oil pump. Neoprene front seal. All new bearings. New crankshaft and camshaft gears


     
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  3. Bandit Billy
    Joined: Sep 16, 2014
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