Here's an old hillbilly country boy trick. Go to the local feed store and buy a 60 or 80 CC siringe for horses and cows, (cows on VMF, is that a first?.....*G*). Use something like a butter jug lid and cut the edge off of it so you have a flat clear piece of plastic. Put some grease around the edge of the chamber with it level and up, and push the plastic down on it but leave a small gap at the edge. Fill up the siringe with trans fluid or some other kind of light oil and check that it is exactly to the line, (80CC's etc.). Without spilling any start filling the chamber slowly and stop when it is full. Turn the siringe back upright and check the ammount that's left. Subtract that amount from what you started with and you have a very close measurement of what the chamber volume is.
OK, no, I don't build race engines this way. I use a $700 glass burette to match chambers with. But you know what, when I just want to check out a set of heads in a junk yard to see if they are 58's or 64's this does a pretty good job......... and I'm sure as hell not going to haul my burette out there.
Ok, let the cow jokes fly!...........*G*.
Hal
Love hard, drive fast, wear your seat belt.
PS, thats's my 'bird...... My Mustang is too ugly to take pictures of yet........*G*.
http://www.teleport.com/~cosa/bird2.jpg