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Amherst College
News about Amherst College, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Sep. 27, 2014
The Upshot; Michael Beschloss History Source column recalls 1859 baseball showdown between Williams College and Amherst College; notes that game, won by Amherst, 73-32, was played according to archaic 'Massachusetts' rule set. MORE
Dec. 2, 2013
Baltimore Orioles general manager Dan Duquette, along with his counterparts Neal Huntington of Pittsburgh Pirates and Ben Cherington of Boston Red Sox, credit their former coach at Amherst College, Bill Thurston, for their success. MORE
Oct. 23, 2013
Emily Dickinson Archive promises to offer access to thousands of manuscripts held by different institutions on single open-access Web site but project, organized and funded by Harvard University, has reignited decades-old tensions between Harvard and Amherst College, which hold two largest Dickinson collections. MORE
Apr. 8, 2013
Amherst beats Mary Hardin-Baylor to win its second Division III men's college baskeball national championship; Drury beats Metro State-Denver for Division II men's title. MORE
Nov. 12, 2012
Amherst College campus has been engulfed in sexual assault controversy, and few college leaders are as well prepared as its president Biddy Martin, who has written extensively on gender and sexuality and has history of tackling thorny disputes; Martin has been lauded for her response to incidents. MORE
Oct. 27, 2012
Student Angie Epifano's wrenching account of being raped by a fellow student at Amherst College in May 2011, followed by her callous treatment by college officials, is published in school newspaper, generating wide scrutiny; her story inspires other student victims of rape to step forward and has led school, and its new president Carolyn A Martin, to rethink its approach to sexual violence and prevention methods. MORE
May. 31, 2012
SAT exam will be offered outside of the school year for the first time, but only to students enrolled in a $4,500 summer program for gifted students on the Amherst College campus. MORE
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School Snapshot
Name: Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Mass.
Type: 4-year, Private not-for-profit
Year Opened: 1821
Tuition and Fees (Fall 2009): $38,928
Total enrollment (Fall 2007): 1,683
Undergraduate enrollment: 1,683
Number of applicants (Fall 2008): 7,745
Percent applicants admitted: 15%
Graduation rate: 96%
U.S. News and World Report Ranking: 1
Sports Team Nickname: Lord Jeffs
School Web site: Amherst.edu
The Longest Game: Williams vs. Amherst
It was a milestone event in baseball history, in a rivalry that lives on today.
September 27, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON AMHERST COLLEGE AND: Baseball , Colleges and Universities , Williams College , Amherst College , Baseball (College)
Misunderstood Tuition: An Elite-College Case Study
The published price at Amherst has soared in recent years. The actual price is virtually unchanged.
August 6, 2014, Wednesday
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George L. Shinn, a Wall Street Chief Who Turned to Teaching, Dies at 90
Mr. Shinn, a former president of Merrill Lynch, also led the First Boston Corporation as chairman and chief executive, but left unexpectedly to pursue teaching.
December 19, 2013, Thursday
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3 General Managers True to One School
Dan Duquette of the Baltimore Orioles, Neal Huntington of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Ben Cherington of the Boston Red Sox credit their former coach at Amherst College, Bill Thurston, for their success.
December 2, 2013, Monday
MORE ON AMHERST COLLEGE AND: Baseball , Pittsburgh Pirates , Amherst College , Huntington, Neal A , Cherington, Ben , Baltimore Orioles , Boston Red Sox , Duquette, Dan , Thurston, Bill
Enigmatic Dickinson Revealed Online
Manuscripts and even small jottings by Emily Dickinson that have long fascinated scholars and her fans are part of a new Web archive.
October 23, 2013, Wednesday
MORE ON AMHERST COLLEGE AND: Harvard University , Dickinson, Emily, Archive , Manuscripts , Amherst College , Archives and Records , Colleges and Universities , Dickinson, Emily , Poetry and Poets , Books and Literature
A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test
An Amherst computer scientist hired by D-Wave Systems found that one of its computers, said to be using quantum properties, achieved speeds 3,600 times that of a conventional computer in one test.
May 8, 2013, Wednesday
MORE ON AMHERST COLLEGE AND: D-Wave Systems , Amherst College , Quantum Computing
Professors at San Jose State Criticize Online Courses
The philosophy department said the push to use the courses would compromise education quality, stifle diverse viewpoints and lead to the dismantling of public universities.
May 3, 2013, Friday
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Using the 'Old-School Method' to Choose Between Amherst and Yale
When choosing between Yale and Amherst, Leobardo Espinoza Jr. resorted to the "old-school method of deciding where I felt the most comfortable."
May 2, 2013, Thursday
MORE ON AMHERST COLLEGE AND: Topeka (Kan) , Yale University , Amherst College , Financial Aid (Education) , Colleges and Universities
Amherst, Yale or Elsewhere?
Leobardo Espinoza Jr., a high school senior in Kansas, is trying to make his college decision based on fit, not prestige.
April 24, 2013, Wednesday
MORE ON AMHERST COLLEGE AND: New Haven (Conn) , Topeka (Kan) , Bowdoin College , University of Kansas , Yale University , Amherst College , Colleges and Universities , Admissions Standards
Amherst Takes Division III Basketball Title
Amherst pulled away late to beat Mary Hardin-Baylor in Atlanta and win its second Division III national championship.
April 8, 2013, Monday
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I really like the idea of the th200r4 in the V8 RX7.
Which top end kit are you looking at? Hyd roller cam or hyd flat tappet cam?
The flat tappet "RPM" cam is nothing special.
The Edelbrock RPM Hyd roller version cam is not too bad.
If you could while you are measuring, measure the piston deck clearance @TDC.
From the outer high part of the piston not the dish.
(.025" ish +/-)
I have a few more heads to recomend.
GM Bowtie vortec GMPP pn#25534446 (assembled)
AFR 195 Eliminator #1034 (64cc)
AFR pn#912 "Vortec" Eliminator (new) look here
All These are way ahead of the Edelbrock E-Tecs
The AFR heads can be ordered factory direct with otion like chamber CC volume adjustment.
I think with the stock dished pistons you are going to want a 58-60 cc ish finished chamber volume.
With the car being so light weight and the high ratio rear cogs I would consider a (Street) solid lifter cam for this motor (roller or flat tappet).
You will need a high stall converter fo the Edelbrock RPM cams
I recomend a 3000 minimum stall and 3500 stall best. With converter full lock up function retained.
Here is my RX-7 V8 recipe recomendation.
AFR 195 Eliminators #1034
Edelbrock Performer RPM air gap manifold
Or Edelbrock Vic Jr manifold (one makes more low mid torque, the other makes a bit more top end power)
Holley-Demon- Proform 750 DP
Isky "Z-27" street mechanical flat tappet cam pn 201027
cam specs with 1.6 ratio rockers will be 282-282 247-247@.050" .540" gross lift 108LSA lash is .016" .018"
Summit 1.6 ratio roller rockers pn SUM-G6906
Yank or Vigilante 3500 stall lock up converter (TH-2004R)
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|I'm really excited for your build. If you run vortecs you can just machine what you have to be better than the SD heads.
|Well, the Car Craft guys are big on the Scoggins Dickey modified iron Vortec heads, and they seem to be a value at about half the cost of Edlebrock aluminum (comments?). What I need to do is talk with the folks at Granny's, the conversion parts supplier, about the weight issue. I'm lightening the car significantly otherwise, so the iron heads may be ok. So many choices make things difficult, in a good way, so thanks all for the input. It's easy to run in circles with all the options. The top-end "kit", I figured, would keep me out of trouble, keep me from picking the wrong cam for example. Yes the car is light, and the rear-end gearing is 4.1:1, and the wheels are 15". I'm getting the point, perhaps the Edlebrock cam included in the kit is a compromise to cover a middle weight car. Since I'll be very light and have an easy-turn rear, perhaps it's not the best cam for me. Perhaps I can trade more low-end torque for HP up top. We do plan to drag the car from time to time. No need to hurry the motor because we have a lot of work to do yet on the car, mainly the wiring harness and instruments. I'm not letting myself off the hook to cc the pistons and calculate CR either, because it will be a learning experience.
you can run 10:1 on stock iron vortecs too, especially in that light of a car.
Aluminum can tolerate more compression, but it also requires more compression to match the power of iron heads, so you really don't gain anything.
I'm not saying those heads are a bad choice, just that they won't get you the most power per dollar. Edelbrock cams aren't that great either. By getting a custom ground cam (for about the same price or maybe even less), you can pick up a lot of power.
Those parts you chose are not terrible, but if you're going to spend that much money I would do some more shopping and I would read up a lot more about waht you can do. Also, define your exact goals. At this point you're basically at ground zero and can build anything from 300-500hp at roughly the same price (give or take $500). 500hp isn't alwasy what you need though, some times off idle control is much more important, sometimes you want something that can run on 87 octane, sometimes you want something else.
Define your goals.
Educate yourself.
Shop around.
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|Understood. I don't mind buying 92 - 93 octane, nor do I mind ditching the stock pistons. I get it that new pistons are a minor expense relative to everything else, and fortunatly I'm not so budget constrained that I would have to pass on them, what with the engine out and mostly apart, this would be the time for them. I thought I was stuck with having to keep CR close to 9 points in order to use pump gas (that's what the mags seem to preach), so the factory dished units made sense once I confirmed they were hyper., but I see how the thermal advantages of aluminum heads will allow more CR. So if flat top pistons (or another design with less volume than stock) running 10:1 or so, with aluminum heads, will make for a stout, and reliable engine on 92 octane, we'll do it. It's all good. BTW, the Edlebrock top-end kit I was referring to is not fuel injected, it's simply a set of their 170cc alum. "Vortec" heads, an RPM "Gap" intake manifold, cam, timing set, and some gaskets. Edlebrock claims 435 hp on a 9.5 CR roller-cam 350 with that set of goodies installed. Plan is to have a bottom-end that will safly get the most out of my further investments (even if Edlebrock's claims are a bit idealized), and you guys are a big help. This is a wonderful forum, full of eager to help type people. I try to dig up facts before I post; if i don't do a great job of that, your patience is appreciated. Here's what me and my 15 year old son, Wesley, are up to (I'm 52, going on 18 I think). Check out the pic, you'll see in the foreground the hood of a supercharged Mazda Miata that we run on club lapping days at road courses, its looking out of my garage at an '88 RX-7 being preped for a SBC and TH2004R (yes I know the chain is not supposed to come out the front of the hoist, but it's heavily reinforced all around and I needed the extra couple of inches). Not a classic hot rod, I know, but Chevy-power none the less. This swap is popular. Check out "granny's speed shop" on line if interested. Thanks!
Now you're thinking of an aluminum head. An aluminum head gives off heat at a rate much higher than cast iron, so if you don't bump up the overall compression ratio to something like 10 or 10.5, you will end up with less power than a cast iron head at 9 or 9.5 to 1. And even if you stick with an iron head the squish/quench needs to be fixed. So I'd surly put the fancy Edlebrock fuel injection in the can and start worrying about basics first. Wiz bang toys can always be bolted on later, but fixing incorrect fundamentals is a lot more work later on.
So the pistons have to go. They need to be replaced with flat tops or with a D dish piston. The selection will be that which dials in the SCR to what the fuel octane of what you want to use is. Go to the Keith black site, they have a ton of pistons and some compression ratio calculators.
Squish and quench are functions that build what's called mechanical octane into the engine, they also improve off idle and high axle ratio cruise performance as well as optimizing performance against the available octane fuels. The same parts perform both functions, which are merely separated in cycle time. Squish happens first, as the piston closes to TDC the mixture on the far side of the chamber is ejected by the close closing of the piston and head decks toward the spark plug. This stirs the mixture and increases its density before the spark-plug making it easier to light off and faster to burn.
As the burn proceeds from the plug, the temperature and pressures go up very quickly. The so called end burn on the far side of the chamber wants to spontaneously ignite creating and explosion, colliding flame fronts, and high pressure waves. The mechanical way of reducing this is to have an area on the far side of the chamber that has a lot of surface area to its volume to quench the explosion by being a heat sink. These two functions work together to improve the burn giving more power and economy and to delay the onset of detonation, especially under high loads and part throttle operation. Certainly not as sexy as EFI, the basics seldom are sexy, but the foundation is what keeps it together.
you can save some weight by going to aluminum heads, and the heads you have listed are decent heads, your route isn't the most cost effective way to 400hp though, I was just trying to help your bottom line.
As far as pump gas and Vortecs, flat tops and Vortecs are ran a LOT. anything larger than a 268XE cam seems to run just fine on premium. If you are going for high RPM power you could probably get by on 89 maybe even 87 depending on a lot of other factors.
It all depends on what route YOU want to take. I was just trying to show you a cheaper route to make the 400hp you are after.
|ap72, I thought flat-tops with the 64cc Vortec chambers would run my octane requirement over pump-gas range? FYI- I don't have heads or intake for the motor at present. The aluminum Vortec heads are attractive because of the weight savings. The project car once had a much lighter engine (rotary) and I would like to avoid too much weight up front.
sounds like you could hit it with a hone and put in some std. flat tops. I know budget may be tight, but $100 for pistons, and $50 for rings, with some work done to the heads and a cam swap would give you 400hp AND cost less than the edelbrock conversion.
Its a lot cheaper to swap pistons than heads and Vortecs with $100 of machine work and new springs can support 400hp with no problem.
F-BIRD '88, okay, I'll do that. My engine is on a stand and I'm sure it will be important to use a level, shim wheels, etc. to ensure all is level before I start, to avoid trapped air. I do have a dial indicator and stand, so no problem finding TDC. I'll do this over this weekend and report back. Not looking to have my hand held, so I'll try to research the calculations best I can without bothering you, but I hope you wouldn't mind giving a little more help if I get stuck. The reason this is important to me is the short-block has only 39K mi. on it (it's out of a wreck and has been stored oiled and covered for several years). Budget is tight, so I would like to reuse it as is but still make maximum HP, and I know that takes decent compression numbers. If, say, the CR was in the "8's", with the particular dish cc I have (as some have speculated per my first post), I would find the dollars to replace the pistons with a shallower dish type. But since it's confirmed that the stockers are hypereutetic - and if after the volume measurements you kindly described come out favorable (9 plus points), I'll be sitting pretty. Still need to inspect the rod and crank journals, and measure bearing clearances, but I expect all will be well. the bores measure at 4.00" + - .001". There is no ridge at all, no scuffs or glazing. The honing is still visible. Cobalt327, that dish appears slightly deeper than mine, but it could just be the angle of the photo. Wish I had a nice depth gauge like that. I do have a good Starrett dial caliper, and I suppose I could play around with it by placing a flat bar across the piston top, resting the bottom of the scale on it and dropping the depth measurng device down from that, then subtracting the thickness of the bar. We'll find out soon enough.
The pistons from a Suburban L31 I own have exactly 11cc dishes that are 0.080" deep.
If you have the stock L-31 short block sitting in front of you and it really matters to you, why don't you measure the piston's actual dish volume and piston deck clearance @ TDC OF YOUR MOTOR and then calculate the real compression ratio and tell us.
To measure the combined volume of the piston dish, valve reliefs and piston deck clearance @ TDC on your assembled L-31 short block, you will need a old CD rom disc, some common household Vaseline Petroleum jelly and a graduated cylinder (100ML) (your local drug store pharmacist counter)
The vaseline is used to seal off the gap between the piston's edge in the cylinder (@TDC) and cylinder wall and to seal the CD ROM disc to the deck of the block.
Just spread the vaseline around the pistontop/cylinder edge with your finger to make a temp water proof seal.
You need a accurate method of getting the piston to exact TDC. (piston stop or dial indicator w/stand)
You pour the water (100ML) from the 100ML graduated cylinder thru the hole in the CD ROM disc (mounted on the deck of the block) until the cylinder is full of water. The volume in CC's is the amount now missing from the cylinder. ( Subtract the water remaining in the graduated cylinder from 100.
Not that hard.
Now you have accurate numbers to calculate the real compression ratio with X cylinder head and Y head gasket volume.
When you are done just wipe the vaseline off the piston and deck.
Weather the Edelbrock Performer RPM Camshaft included in the Edelbrock Top End Kit is the right cam or best cam choice for your vehicle and intended purpose is another thing.
some tools you'll need
|Yes the pistons are hyper pistons. The factory compression ratio was 9.4:1. There should be no problem converting it over as you wish. I`d say you`ll land in the 385 and up horsepower range but this is just a guesstimate. At any rate your sure to like the results.
L-31 compression ratio and piston type?
I bumped into some on-line debate about L-31 CR with 64cc heads and stock pistons and would appreciate some input from the forum. Someone was saying that Chevrolet used two different dish cc's depending on the application - the heavy duty trucks being set up for less CR for some reason. I'm asking because I have a stock L-31 short block salvaged from a 2001 CK2500 (yes they did put some L-31's into 2001 vehicles, although the computer at Auto Zone won't agree). I'm considering the Edlebrock top end kit (E-Tec heads, RPM "Gap" intake, and a cam). Edlebrock claims 400 plus HP on a 9.5:1 350ci. What HP can I expect out of the stock-piston , stock bore and stroke Vortec with this top end kit installed? What will my compression ratio be? Finally, if someone can settle this one - are the stock GM dished pistons used in these late model Vortec engins hypereutetic??
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