Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
Excellent post explaining squish and the relationships between the pieces, Tech. I really enjoy reading and learning more about these things from your experience base, and you're a good writer.
The one thing that jumped out at me is the gasket thickness - it seems that you could pick up ten to fifteen thousandths by using a thinner gasket, getting you down into the .055 to .060 range. Pat, you mentioned a long board and some 80 grit. Would it be possible to keep things flat and take off another .010 to .015 with elbow grease? Too much risk of getting it crooked? Just wondering after reading both yours and Tech's posts. May not be worth the risk for a basic stock rebuild where the decision has been made that the lower end is not being touched (no new pistons).
I agree Tech. This is very valuable info, but it just doesn't seem so for this build. I have another project after this one that I will use this teaching on because it WILL have flat top pistons (I already have them) and a pretty large cam that I have also. It will be a 350 using my 305 heads and will go in my daily driven S10. In this thread I needed to now why I was getting coolant in the cylinders of my 400sbc which I have figured out and I now know that I need another set of heads that will work