Smaller piston-tops also mean flame-travel is shorter across the top, meaning faster completion of burn? Which might also give less chance for detonation (Less area where pre-ignition can occur?).
Or am I jumping conclusions?
that's a large reason why dodge went with the V10 for the 3/4 & 1 ton trucks. granted, by the early 90's, most of the big block tooling was scrapped, but they found they had trouble meeting emissions on bores much over 4" while still making decent power, so they decided to add cylinders....
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