All this talk of switching parts and I'm the first to suggest drilling holes in the Pistons..
How to lower compression???'s
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Yes but he'd need a good catch can setup on the valve covers... 🤣All this talk of switching parts and I'm the first to suggest drilling holes in the Pistons..
You can also retard the cam a little to bleed
Thicker headgaskets increases detonation due to poorer quench. Best to either mill or swap the pistons. Perhaps a tamer cam too.
Thicker headgaskets increases detonation due to poorer quench. Best to either mill or swap the pistons. Perhaps a tamer cam too.
To a point I agree. If he’s running a standard Felpro at .038-.040 and zero decked, then he can get away with .050-055. Going to .080-.100 will cause major issues and .060-.065 won’t help his cause either. But if his pistons are .020 in the hole then he needs to stick with .030-.040 thick head gasket as a maximum thickness.
Most of this comes down to the OP. There are going to be times that he has to pay close attention to sound, performance and temps, and perhaps hang out waiting for it to cool off. . If he lets his woman drive it like a it’s a Toyota Rav 4 then it’s destined to be blown up. It won’t take 20 minutes of ignorance.
And he doesn’t need less cam imo. I’d tell him to put all of the cam in it that he can stomach around town. As Shawn mentioned, he needs to bleed all of the compression he can.
Just makes the tune tougher to keep a handle on. Moving the cam about doesn’t help Bo Diddley if it’s too small. He needs to keep the cylinder pressure low below 3000rpms.
Have you read what we talked about above?
Out of everything there that's all you took out of it?
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