I recently rebuilt my 302, bored 30 over, and used a factory summit piston and ring package. I ran a compression test on one cylinder, and it came up 130. This was slightly alarming but.........I have a few questions. I am at sea level and i believe that the standard pressure is 14.7. The stock replacement kit said the pistons would have 9:1 compression, but i am running gt-40 heads which, if im not mistaken, have a larger combustion chamber and thus would lower compression. The rings have not yet seated, less than 50 miles. I figure my compression ratio is around 8.5-8.8:1. So , i would take 14.7 X 8.8 = 129.36. Correct me if im wrong, but does this look right? Also, will my compression go up further when the rings are seated? I will test all the others tomorrow, was dark here, but should i be alarmed or as long as they are all the same then i should be ok right? Thanks,
Chris
Chris