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Can I mill .020 off the head and install a .020 shim under the head gasket without lowering the compression ratio too far?

  • chelton658 Jul 07, 2009

    Sorry, but the shim does create more space in the combustion chamber. By my calculations a little more that a 10th of a cubic inch. I'm just not sure how to calculate what the compression ratio will be by adding the additional space in the squash area. Diesel engines are very touchy about this. Below 16:1 they wont even run.

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Actually your compression will boost since there is less space.

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