Baker, G. wrote:
>
> "If your head were machined a lot (say 1/16" or more), shims under all four
> pedestals would restore the original geometry. However, they would surely be
> classified as four "thick" shims. The two originally fitted to later 5-main
> engines (after 1968, I believe) were actually quite skinny - from memory,
> I'd say about .010" at the most."
>
> If you don't know the history of your head is there any way to measure so as
>to
> know if it's been machined before or not. It seems that otherwise it would
> be very hard
> to get the correct thickness or shims and setup the "geometry" correctly.
> Thanks,
> Gregg Baker
>From the General Data section of a BMC Special Tuning Booklet published
in 1968: Cylinder head depth - 3 11/64 plus .015 in, minus .000 in.
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