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Old 01-13-2006, 08:03 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Fuel
... I just found out that the last person who owned my car had the head taken down a 1/16 of an inch too far; this is why it blew a HG...
1/16th of an inch is 0.0625" ... that is 62 and a half thousandths.
If he took that much off of the head (which is hard to believe for me), you may just have the record of how much a head was milled.


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Originally Posted by lethalwithasupra
can't you just fit a really thick metal gasket to raise the ratio again ?
Yep, you can. But they only come in a couple of sizes. 3mm is the thickest I believe.
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