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Old 05-04-2021, 05:09 PM   #14
Hitman
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Default Re: Anyone run a Lion Head

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Originally Posted by Model A Ron View Post
You must be kidding.....this thing is only 6.5 to 1??? I did not ask Bruce but I was thinking it was at least 8 to 1. I drove a car with the 6.1 head and it was a kitten compared to the Lion Head. As an engineer I can appreciate all the R&D that went into this gem.

Ron
They could be ordered with different compression ratios, that maybe what happened in the example you test drove/rode.

If it were me, I'd go with a reproduction iron Winfield head that Tod in Ohio makes. He's on the Fordbarn and occasionally posts updates on his head and block production runs.
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