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Old 04-01-2016, 05:47 AM
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Not that hard. They made all the parts themselves, and the compression ratio and therefore head thickness was largely constant. It's like any other production tolerance stack. The problems arise when different suppliers make the parts and each build has a different compression ratio, etc.
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