Not too worried about compression ratio if I go through with my plan to use a 2.96" stroke billet crankshaft. Figure I am going to loose about a point and a half compression, only looking for 10:1 or 10.5:1 at most. I just could not picture them sticking out of the deck, but .018" is only a little more than 1/64 of an inch. It just seems zero deck height is what most motors shoot for.

On the eagle rod website compression program, I find 10.7:1 with piston .018 out of the hole and 70cc combustion chambers. Same specs but with pistons at zero deck it drops to 10.22:1 (This assumes those pistons have a compression height of 1.84" and the block deck height is 9.599")