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Old 03-20-2011, 02:11 PM
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Just a thought for you guys that are taking .040" and .060" off of your heads...if it warps again, how much material do you have left to clean up/flatten the surface before the valves no longer clear the head? Take too much off, and the head will no longer be usable if it warps again.
Neither of my heads where warped. Did this strickly for the performance gain. I still have one virgin head for the future and have feelers out for more. Why would you not want an inexpensive performance gain.
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That's unusual...I've done more than a dozen head gaskets...all of those heads were warped.

All of my tractors have plenty of power; I've had no need to do this to any of mine.
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I do it just to be excessive. One of these days, Im going to be making new billet heads for my machines. To anyone who may have gotten the tractors I have , They might have scrapped the head because it looked like a roller coaster ride! My first head is so rediculously warped on top it looks super funny. It was so bad I had to re drill the bolt holes too. If people would just keep the air cooling fins cleaner and do the ignition timing procedure, it would not over heat. All in all, I think milling them down makes them torquier. My opinion, and I will continue to do it.
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Wouldn't the increase in compression put more strain on the connecting rod?
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Wouldn't the increase in compression put more strain on the connecting rod?
Yes. How much, who knows? I am not worried about it. If I was gonna use the engine in competition running ungoverned I would replace the rod at least once a season. However, I will be running a governer in this motor. Most things you do to any engine to increase performance is gonna put more stress on the parts. If you build for performance you have to take into consideration the higher maintence schedule and pay closer attention to detail so you don't have premature parts failure. Basically it is the same things you would do on a stocker, just more often and with more care. It is all in what you as the owner wish to do. Kinda like with my rifle, I could buy factory ammo and kill deer just as dead as the ammo I load myself, but I require a different standard for myself than what would satisfy the next guy.
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