Good catch. After a certain point, I was proofreading without absorbing
everything.
Ken Smart wrote:
> Gordon,
> You should have checked out your great remodeled web site!
> On the Rising Sun Racing Archives - 1600 Head page it says...
> "A new 1600 head is 3.248" (82.5mm) thick; use this dimension to determine
> how much your head has been cut. When a 1600 head has been cut over .060"
> it usually raises the compression ratio so high that it is difficult to
> keep the engine from
> pinging even with retarded timing and premium fuel."
>
> Ken Smart
> 67.5 1600 (SR20 Blown Head again DOH!)
> Sydney Australia home of the Olympics fiasco!
>
> At 21:33 30/05/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >That would be way too much for a U20 head, but I don't know about the R16.
> >If no one has any hard
> >data, I'd say CC the chambers first to see what the compression ratio would
> >be. If it works out
> >okay, clay the pistons to see what the piston-to-valve clearance is.
> >
> >Bahnseye@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> I have a 1600 head with 100 thousandths milled off of it! I have not
> had the
> >> courage to bolt it on, tho!
> >>
> >> JH Bahn
> >
> >--
> >Gordon Glasgow
> >http://www.gordon-glasgow.org
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