Piston to head clearancing

[tubman]

Originally Posted by 39voorti

Well, my 1 millimeter milled 8BA head here.

Got 8,5 bar = 123 psi compression with these (with FelPro gaskets)

Lemme see, 1 MM is about .040", right? Have you checked the resulting piston clearance? It would be interesting to know. As I said in an earlier post, .050 clearance with Edmunds heads on my 8BA gives 160 lbs. (Fel-Pro gaskets as well).