RE: 440 help

[SB <polecat2@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure.  My guess would be to fight detonation, as they expected 
these engines to get very hot on a regular basis.  Maybe the low 
compression would be easier on the bearings?  I'm just guessing here, of 
course.

Interestingly, the old 318 Poly's made for heavy truck and industrial 
use were also 7.0:1 compression.  When I was a teenager, they closed a 
local cement plant.  My friend breathlessly dragged me up there so we 
could buy some of the old hemi's they had there that were used to power 
giant, stone conveyer belts and other large equipment--many outdoors, no 
less.  The hemis all turned out to be 318 Polys, and I called him an 
idiot because I passed up a date with a cute girl to go get one of the 
things!  This was about 1981, and those old Polys had run seven days a 
week from the 1950's and 1960's, and didn't give any trouble.  They were 
all caked with cement dust, too.  That's saying something.  And I am 
still shocked at the incredible size of the machinery a single Poly 
engine can run.



roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Why such low compression.  Very interesting.  Just for cheap pump gas 
> cause the motor home did 6 mile to the gal?


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