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I had 2mm shaved off my N47. I simply lined up the sprocket triangle to position #1. To do this I ended up moving 1 full link.  The tensioner took up the slack. It was on a well worn engine.

I would recommend repositioning the slack side chain guide to take up some slack if possible.

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Now that the dust has settled with my broken camshaft project, I'm trying to get back to my F54/P79 motor.

I was messing around with the handy-dandy Atlantic Z engine calculator app found here:   http://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips//calcs/engine builder/index.html     and I can't get it to give me the correct compression ratio. The FSM says the F54/P79 combo (used in the later ZX NA cars) yields a compression ratio of 8.8:
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But using the calculator app, I don't get that result. I get 8.43 instead:
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I get 8.43 instead of 8.8. What am I doing wrong? I know some of the numbers (like the head gasket thickness) is off a little, but not enough to explain my delta.

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I got the chamber volume "off the web". That 53.6 is the number that "everybody uses". Of course, because of that, I cannot attest to the accuracy.

So I've been messing around with the calculators a little more, and I believe they messed the math up some. I've got an excel spreadsheet with my own measurements and calculations and I get pretty close to that 8.8 using data that I measured or derived myself. When I use my measurements in my spreadsheet, I get 8.86. I have not measured the chamber volume myself, so some small differences there could explain the remaining discrepancy.

I do not think they are calculating the uncompressed volumes correctly. Also, my measurement of piston stick-up above the block deck back-calculates to a significantly different pin height than what they're using.

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I just did the calc and it seems very close to the tool.

Some subtle points are:

  • On compression stroke, the volume of the gasket is reduced by the piston protrusion into it.
  • On the Intake stroke, the piston top is not 79mm down from the block but 79 mm down from its top when protruding.

Here are my calcs. Attached is the XLS.

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P79 Comp Ratio Calc.xls

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Yes, I understand those subtle points, and that's where some of the problems are. For example... If you change the pin height spec in the calculator here>>   http://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips//calcs/engine builder/index.html 

The compressed volume changes, but the un-compressed volume does not. It's a bug. It's not accounting for the fact that the piston height at the bottom of the stroke is raised as well.

I'll clean up my spreadsheet some and maybe post my numbers.

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Well if you're going into the code... Here's the other things I came up with.

First, I think the pin height used for the L28 flat top pistons is incorrect.  When I put my pistons at TDC, they stick-up out of the block by .021 inches. I'm assuming Nissan's target was 0.5mm there. So whatever you need to do with the pin height to make that piston pop-out number work out to 0.5mm.

Also, I measured the thickness of a used head gasket to be 0.047 inches (1.19 mm). I measured the thickness of a brand new one to be about .052 (1.3mm), so there's some crush there when the head is torqued down.

Other thing I found is that the piston holes in the head gaskets are elliptical, not round. I measured the holes on a used gasket to be approx 3.440 by 3.505 inches (87.4 x 89mm) . Sure you can average those two numbers to something in between to make the end result close to correct, but I think it would be better to use real numbers.

I also measured the holes on a brand new L28 head gasket and got approx. 3.447 x 3.516  (87.5 x 89.3mm), so the piston holes close down some as the gasket gets crushed. That makes sense too.

Anyway, if you're going under the hood, there's some other things to think about.

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