[asphaltgambler]

I remember this vividly. But after some time, it all kinda went away. About the same time Smokey was doing simpler way to obatin more power in the early 80's buy selling basically cast high-compression pistons for small Chevy & Ford V-8's coupled with a special grind cam. The kits were all about efficiency not so much added performance.

The pistons and rings were cast not forged for better fit, lower drag and the domes were designed to radically increase compression but produce the right amount of turbulence. The cam grind & profile made it all work. Looking back it really was not anything revolutionary but rather a better approach to make the low-compression smog laden 60's design work better.

I'm pretty sure that these kits actually were produced and made it into customers hands. problem was the amount of labor and parts cost to do the 'conversion' was obviously really high.