Franknstein
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Need some advice from you guys.
Got a D16A7 (SOHC) 16v honda motor which I am currently building for forced induction. I couldn't find any low compression pistons down here in South Africa, but got a set of .20 thou standard pistons ceramic coated. The rest of the Sub-assebmbly is stock, stock rods etc. Now I wan't to drop the compression a little to achieve slightly higher boost levels. The one option I am playing with at the moment is installing an HKS metal head gasket (2301-RH004 prod. code) this one is 3mm and the beaded type. Is this a good idea for my application? My engineer seems to think that this particular headgasket will drop the compression too much... he wan'ts around 2.3mm or less. But he reckons this HKS gasket has 3 layers and each layer can be removed which in turn adjusts the thickness. Is this a load of bollocks or what? Is there maybe another manufacturer that makes a gasket for my application? HELP!
L8r
Got a D16A7 (SOHC) 16v honda motor which I am currently building for forced induction. I couldn't find any low compression pistons down here in South Africa, but got a set of .20 thou standard pistons ceramic coated. The rest of the Sub-assebmbly is stock, stock rods etc. Now I wan't to drop the compression a little to achieve slightly higher boost levels. The one option I am playing with at the moment is installing an HKS metal head gasket (2301-RH004 prod. code) this one is 3mm and the beaded type. Is this a good idea for my application? My engineer seems to think that this particular headgasket will drop the compression too much... he wan'ts around 2.3mm or less. But he reckons this HKS gasket has 3 layers and each layer can be removed which in turn adjusts the thickness. Is this a load of bollocks or what? Is there maybe another manufacturer that makes a gasket for my application? HELP!
L8r