Hello All,
In my quest to reduce my compression ratio and to return my
crank-to-cam distance back to normal I am liking the idea of a thicker head
gasket to make up the difference. With a thicker head gasket I won't have
to shim the cam towers and worry about the wipe pattern on the followers or
worry about having to align bore the cam journals.
Does anybody have any experience with this? I thought that maybe it
was possible to get thicker copper head gaskets? Mike was telling me he
thought he heard it was possible to take two stock head gaskets and glue
them together somehow but he did not have any first hand experience with it.
Mike also has a metal plate in the shape of a head gasket that he got from
Stan a long while ago. Supposedly this plate can be used with a stock head
gasket to lower your CR and return your valve timing. He was not sure how
to implement this. Has anyone had any experience with doing something like
this? I am of course concerned about sealing the head under boosted
conditions. Any (helpful) thoughts on any of this stuff?
Also, man I am feeling really special here, but I don't understand
why a too thin head messes with the valve timing? If the timing chain is
not overly slack I don't see how the valve timing is disturbed? Anyone
wanna set me straight??
Thanks,
Daniel Neuman
Oakland CA
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