[Facey]

got some good news today. engine builder said that i've got some nice aftermarket rods, pistons and rods were balanced. he also mentioned that we doubled stacked the cyclinder to case seals, two 1mm copper rings were used, because my heads had so much work done to them...

i need to drop the engine to fix the oil cooler anyways, and like i said above am going to switch out the engine shroud (cf or bare fg?, or a colour?...gonna do the fan at the same time...), i am going to pull the cam towers and try removing one of the seal rings, is it possible to just slide the cylinders about an inch off and snip one of the seals? (or are they going to be pressed together? or simply not enough room).

anyways, while i'm in there i can check the deck height, and if someone could provide a method i could measure the cc. this should remove any guessing, and allow me to calculate the c/r and select a proper cam, who knows, it might simply be too tight w/o that other 1mm... but 12:1 is doable for a street engine with twin plugs is it not???? always run 94 anyways... (could probably get away without).

and just because i could make good power up high doesn't mean i would, when i mean sacrifice some mid range i mean loose some of the 2500-5000 pull, STILL set the rev limit at something reasonable like 7200rpm and simply turn the dial to 7800 (or 8000, lol) for the dyno and track.

but who knows... opening an engine is risky, could find something in there that i do not want to. (dare I take the plunge?)... open to thoughts, seems to me like a good x-mas break project).