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I was wondering if any one had any answers to the following:

1. Would having the cylinder head milled while rebuilding raise compression??

2. If Yes then would I recieve any minor/major HP changes?

3. I know that it would lower my displacement but what I'm really interested in is the HP change..

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Mine got milled and has raised compression... it requires premium gas but the power is lower than before. This may be a cam timing error (though we could not measure one), or maybe it's a problem with the stock computer program.

In theory this should raise power, but they say if you want to raise compression you should do it with the pistons, not the head... but then, some of the fancy heads they sell, like Esslinger's, are shaved this way.

It does not change your displacement -- that number refers only to the volume swept by the motion of the pistons, not to the combustion chamber volume.

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I would think you have to be careful to not take off too much when milling the head. You dont want the valves hitting the piston
More compression always means more power, Im not sure why your engine doesnt run stronger.


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Originally posted by CRZYDRVR:
I would think you have to be careful to not take off too much when milling the head. You dont want the valves hitting the piston
More compression always means more power, Im not sure why your engine doesnt run stronger.
I was thinking of the same thing.


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So that's why it's losing power... the friction of the valves bumping into the pistons all the time.



Seriously, I'd like to figure it out, because they're starting a group buy of superchips, and it would be nice not to stick one on a mis-tuned engine.

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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz:
the friction of the valves bumping into the pistons all the time.


Physically hitting the valves ??? Are u sure ???


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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz:
So that's why it's losing power... the friction of the valves bumping into the pistons all the time.




That is scary.


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So that's why it's losing power... the friction of the valves bumping into the pistons all the time.



LOL sounds pretty bad


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Is it possible that the cam gear(s)-to-crankshaft gear dimension is affected by head milling enough to affect cam timing (assuming that the timing belt teeth are sitting in the same pulley grooves)? Hopefully, this makes sense.

Dunno...just my $.02


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It doesn't affect the gear ratios, but it does effect the length of belt between the drive gear and the driven gears, so it could throw it off. But when we put the belt on, we measured the cam timing as accurately as we could and found no error. I sure wouldn't be surprised if it was actually off by a degrees or two, though. I think the error would be in the retarding direction.

How is performance affected if your cams are two degrees behind -- does anyone know?

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