Thread: Removing carbon deposits with water???

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"Could I go thinner and not risk piston to valve clearance issues??"

Depends on the deck height. (piston crown to deck measurement)
Only way to know for sure is to clay the pistons and run the motor through a couple of hand turns with solid lifters and checking springs.

"Not to mention the degree wheel and dial indicator."

Hey, you're either willing to shell out the drachmas for equipment or you're not. The alternatives are to spend even more money by having someone do it for you or leave the motor alone and sell the cam kit on ebay.

Here's what I would do. Purchase a dial indicator, degree wheel, six inch dial caliper and go to a local machine shop and have them make me a steel rod the same diameter as a lifter, but about 8" long. Use this in place of a lifter to do your checking. Being this long, it sticks up far enough to make setting up your dial indicator off the deck easy and if you set up the block so that the rod is vertical, it will follow the cam lobe very nicely, being that it is made of heavy steel. Make sure the shop finishes off the ends nicely.

Purchase 2 solid lifters, a pair of checking springs and some oil-based modeling clay to do the valve to piston check. If you don't know how to do this, just say so and I'll elaborate.