Easy ways to increase compression ratio?

[jimynick]

What the real easy way is, is stick a 360 in it and have done. By the time you add up the cost of pistons, rings, bearings, gaskets, valve job, machining, etc. You're cheaper off to find a decent used 360. It'll bolt in the same hole, to the same trans and if you're really on a budget, you could re-use the 318's manifolds if the 360 isn't a Magnum version. Just my 

[mildphil]

Yeah, I guess there is no real cheap way. I will probably save up some cash then when the time comes I will throw in a rebuilt 440.

[73restomod]

You could get a thinner head gasket as an ultra cheap route, but getting your heads and intake shaved doesn't cost all that much if you find a good machinist with reasonable prices.
1151G Mr. gasket head gasket Compressed Thickness .028 plus a .030 head cut should get you close to 1 full point of compression. If you do the wrench work yourself could be done easily for under 300 Bucks.

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[cudabob496]

You could get a thinner head gasket as an ultra cheap route, but getting your heads and intake shaved doesn't cost all that much if you find a good machinist with reasonable prices.
1151G Mr. gasket head gasket Compressed Thickness .028 plus a .030 head cut should get you close to 1 full point of compression. If you do the wrench work yourself could be done easily for under 300 Bucks.

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true, but should probably check valve to piston clearance at same time.

[jimynick]

true, but should probably check valve to piston clearance at same time.

Especially as you're going to re-cam it!

[Chryco Psycho]

the "easiest" way to increase cylinder pressure is a Blower or Turbo !!

[cudabob496]

the "easiest" way to increase cylinder pressure is a Blower or Turbo !!

or nitrous oxide?

[mildphil]

Haha if only I had enough money for both!

[cudabob496]

neat article in the new Hot Rod. Vic Edelbrock Sr was the first man to put nitromethane in a race car. No one knew why
he kept winning. All they knew were flames kept coming out of his exhaust. The first time he tried it, his engine
melted in areas!

[mildphil]

Wow.so what made him even want to try that? Just a lucky guess?

[HP_Cuda]

I'd say nitros first then blower/turbo but then again with nitros you have to make sure you have fuel pressure to not lean it out.

the "easiest" way to increase cylinder pressure is a Blower or Turbo !!

[Chryco Psycho]

Nitrous Oxide just adds more oxygen to the mix requiring more fuel to keep the burn temps down , think oxy act torch , more oxygen = more heat .
 Nitromethane is totally different , i carries oxygen in the fuel , the engine is close to hydraulic locking there is so much fuel pushed in , the flames from the exhaust is the oxygen being burned in the air from the heat coming out of the exhaust

[jimynick]

I'd suspect that Vic Sr. may have been the first American to use nitro, but the Europeans were screwing around with exotic fuels big time in the 30's and if I had to bet, I'd bet it was them, first. 

[HP_Cuda]

I wasn't speaking of nitromethane at all. In fact if you want to talk about N0S:

When N2O breaks down in the engine's combustion phase, there is an additional benefit to performance: the oxygen atoms in N2O, as they are freed from their bond to the nitrogen atoms release heat in an exothermic reaction, i.e. one producing more heat than was required to initiate the breakdown; contributing to the overall power increase. The additional amount of heat produced, like that achieved above by increasing the charge of fuel allowed, by use of "nitro," similarly increases engine efficiency and performance, which is directly related to the difference in temperature between the unburned fuel mixture and the hot combustion gasses produced in the cylinders.