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Old 10-12-2022, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by bobcowan View Post
If you use a .060 head gasket, that gives you a quench area of .066. That's way too much. Should be much closer to .040. You need a gasket closer to .035'ish.

Be sure to calculate dynamic compression with the big cam you're planning on. Keep that around 8.0 or so.
All the head gaskets I can find list .050 as compressed thickness. Never mind... found them.
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