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Re: Raising Compression on a 1500

To: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Raising Compression on a 1500
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:34:31 -0700
When I told the shop to take off 0.09" from my head, they
thought I was crazy.  I guess you can't do that sort of thing
to modern engines...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

At 06:05 PM 4/24/01 , you wrote:

>     How much should I tell the shop to mill off?
>
>When I first read my copy of the 1500 Competition Preperation manual, I
>laughed out loud when I read the opening sentence of the chapter on the
>cylinder head.  It said something like 'Remove 0.220" from the surface of
>the head.'  Yep, they recommended taking off nearly a quarter of an inch!
>
>Too bad I can't do that on the Street Prepared autocross car.  Now, the
>red road racer, on the other hand....
>
>mjb.

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