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Old 09-15-2009, 03:23 PM   #14
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What did you wind up doing about the compression issue? I forgot if you already went over all of that
Backed the cam off from a 274XE to a 268XE and went with .015 steel shim head gaskets. I talked to comp and the 274XE would have been on the edge at 9.5:1.

The big seller was that the torque jumped up by 10 lb-ft and moved down the curve by 2000RPM when I went with the smaller grind. With a weight of 3000lbs, a 2.52 first, 4.11 rear, and that much grunt down low it should be a blast.

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