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Calculating compression ratio?

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#1 ·
Ok, trying to figure out compression ratio on a proposed build, maybe need an education on the subject. Have a couple assumptions I need help with.

Inch to cm conversion is inch x 2.54?

Volume of a cylinder is: stroke x 3.14159 x 1/2 bore squared, right? Of course must add in head gasket cc, head cc, and subtract any dome?

"Top dead center cc" is head cc + head gasket cc + cc of any amount the piston is short of the deck?

compression ratio is how many times the top dead center volume fits into the total cylinder volume? (Total cylinder volume/top dead center volume?)

so, tell me if Using stuff from geometry works for this or not, thanks guys!
 
#4 · (Edited)
KB pistons has one of the better ones on the net. It will also calculate dynamic CR as well is you have the rod length and intake valve closing timing. Brooks Racing Components had a good one as well, but it has taken input for a couple years now. No idea why.

If it doesn't ask for the head gasket diameter separate from the cylinder bore diameter, its not that accurate.

Some go so far as to ask the piston clearance above the top ring, and the distance from the crown to the top ring to account for crevice volume.

If you are guessing at the combustion chamber volume, and/or deck clearance, you are playing darts in a dark room with a blind fold after being spun on a bar stool 20 times, after you drank 6 rum and cokes. That might work for picking a camshaft, but not for figuring compression ratio.
 
#3 · (Edited)
bore sq'd x.7854 x stroke gives you cu. in. x 16.387 gives you cc's . you need to know quench clearance + chamber vol. - dome vol. to know what you have at tdc . hope that helps .