Performance Questions. 16v CHEAP!

[rapieper@yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

http://www.headgasket.com/

Any thickness you want down to 0.022"  That's more or less as thick as
your thumbnail.  For comparison, a stock, composite uncompressed
headgasket is 0.075" - I just measured one.  I would SWAG that the
stock gasket compresses 40% tops, that's 0.030", or still 0.008"
thicker than the thinnest copper.  

Anyone got a used stock headgasket around to measure, for a reality
check on its compressed thickness?

Ron

--- Brian McGarvey <brianm@earendel.org> wrote:
> Brian,
> You got me seriously interested, cause we have to buy a headgasket 
> anyways. Tell me more about using a Cu headgasket. who to buy from
> etc.
> Brian
> 
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, BoxOParts wrote:
> 
> > Yo yo yo
> > 
> > What about simply using a very thin copper reusable headgasket?
> > 
> > If you went with a 1.5mm gasket you could pick up 1 compression
> point I
> > think.
> > 
> > 
> > B
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> > [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Brian McGarvey
> > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:02 PM
> > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Performance Questions. 16v CHEAP!
> > 
> > Ok.
> > the GRM car is reaching the end of the budget train.
> > We want to increase the compression (looking for 11.5:1 or 12:1)
> > Choices:
> > Deck snot out of head
> > Deck snot out of block
> >   We cant afford to do both. We'd like to raise the compression
> using 
> > stock internal parts. this is a 2.0L 16v head and block.
> alternatively
> > we 
> > could do a 1.8 16v head. This is our last choice as that splits the
> > spare 
> > engine. And parts are required fro re-assembly.
> > 
> > If the budget allows from the above regrind of stock cams to a
> 272/268 
> > profile. With the above modification and STOCK valvesprings will
> this 
> > work? 
> > 
> > Is there a better combination
> > Plan:
> > 2.0L 16v, 11.5:1, 100HP n20 port injected, extra fuel injected via
> 2nd 
> > fuel rail and custom EFI controller, extra water/alcohol injection
> same 
> > method, and custom variable n2o injection controled the same way.
> > Ignition 
> > will be retarded/remapped under nitrous and normal operation for
> max hp.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Brian 
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