Compression Ratio

[nlghtcrawler]

looks complicated

[4onFloor]

Originally Posted by Genopsyde

like, perfect how?

have the heads re-surfaced. any and i mean any warpage will cause a leak, and the same goes for the deck. steal gaskets arent as forgiving as regular wire and paperish mesh

[4onFloor]

oh ya, shim gaskets on most small block V8's raise the compression 1/2 a point.

just to give ya rough estimate....