
Originally Posted by
PhilipA
There is only one spec AFAIK.
I had a Google of Thor and the only reference I could find was 9.34.
Now you or the other poster may have read the last digit incorrectly so your two may be the same and my UK forum reference incorrect.
BUT do you realize how small a difference of 0.01 to one is?
It is maybe a tiny sliver of material, and in any case the chamber are cast so they are all over the place anyway and may vary by lots more than 0.01 to one, more like 0.1 to one.
Darn I knew there would be a bush lawyer somewhere who would quibble over 0.01 to one CR , so I looked it up over several sites including the RAVE page.
To find your actual CR to probably about 0.1 you will have to get a burette and measure the combustion chamber, calculate the thickness of the head gasket, and work out the volume from the bore ( and you will be wrong because the gasket may not come exactly to the bore), and somehow calculate the bowl volume including the area above the piston and down to the ring land.
I have had a go at it and obtained a result using Kero, a sheet of Perspex, and some plasticine but it was probably only accurate to about 0.5 or so.
Regards Philip A
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