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| luke111 |
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How much can you take off EF cylinder heads? Is 2mm ok?
I am about to replace my head gasket (Genuine Ford AU gasket & bolts). I would like to machine some off the head to raise the compression. I'm running straight gas & I would like at least 10.5:1. Does anybody know how much they usually charge for just machining the head gasket surface? My car has done 250,000km and it's leaking coolant out the side of the head gasket under the header. |
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| twase |
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2mm you might be able to run diesel instead of LPG. A skim should not set you back much (<$100) and the AU gasket will add a few points to the compression as well.
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| grub73 |
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Ask the shop you get to do the work, but remember that when you up compression you will put strain on the rest of the 250,000km motor, probably blow rings
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| luke111 |
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E-Gas engines have 10.7:1 stock.
I just want to run about the same. |
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| luke111 |
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twason wrote: the AU gasket will add a few points to the compression as well.
can you be more specific?? how much does it change it by exactly? What is the difference in thickness between the stock ef-el gasket & the genuine AU? |
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| hans hartman |
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luke111 wrote: twason wrote: the AU gasket will add a few points to the compression as well. can you be more specific?? how much does it change it by exactly? What is the difference in thickness between the stock ef-el gasket & the genuine AU?
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| relaxed_diplomacy |
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I once bought a vehicle with a 350chev that was built for straight gas but it had a pinging problem and i think the compression was too high, though i never found out for sure. It might have been say 12 or 13:1, but i really don't know. I somehow did heaps of cheap kays with it and it was great but the pinging was a curse.
It wasn't getting hot, the timing and ignition curve was fiddled with heaps, etc, etc, but the pinging came in and out, often seemingly due to LPG quality. Wind back the timing to stop all pinging and it wasn't very powerful. It ran very efficiently though, i was told it had low CO2, or was that O2, i can't remember.
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| Fischer |
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whats a suitable amount to take off a straight gas head i want to do this to my au gas as it only has 9:7:1 or something same as petrol engine.
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| luke111 |
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Can anyone please help me out?
Im pulling the head off this weekend. Is 2mm ok to take off?? |
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you will have chain probs if you take too much off, the tensioner can only take up so much slack.
If you want more compression, then your far better off using a 3.9 head, or different pistons. |
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| TROYMAN |
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luke111 wrote: Can anyone please help me out?
Im pulling the head off this weekend. Is 2mm ok to take off?? do you know if the head has been machined before? 2mm is a lot to take off. thats about 80 thou. plus the difference of the gasket thickness.. i wouldnt take more than 1mm off and you dont know how much alloy has coroded inside the water jackets then you also have to worrie about keeping the tension on the cam chain..as 66coupe said there could be problems?? also we are talking about a used engine and you might be able to raise the comp a bit but if the bottom end has a few kms on it you may just cause it to create more compression blow bye. otherwise hunt down a 3.9 head use your cam and that may give you a similar result and you wont have to worrie about clearence differences and then you shouldnt have to worrie about the cam chain tension.. |
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| luke111 |
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how much will comp go up with the 3.9L head?
sounds like a good idea. is the combustion chamber smaller in the 3.9l head? |
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| alfy |
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sorry to hijack the thread,
my ED had the head shaved 55 thou due to being warped from head gasket failure, plus an AU gasket has been put in. what would my Comp Ratio be around? rest of motor is standard.
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| TROYMAN |
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luke111 wrote: how much will comp go up with the 3.9L head?
sounds like a good idea. is the combustion chamber smaller in the 3.9l head? afaik the 3.9 head has a significantly smaller chamber and also has a swirl ridge that the other heads dont have which also takes up chamber space.. its hard to say how much it will raise the compression unless you can measure the cc of the 3.9 head and chamber.. a mate of mine put a 3.9 head on his nc fairlane but we never measured the compression it was just a head we through on to get the car going after blown head gasket.. and it did go better after the change how much was questionable but noticable.. it never really had any probs with pinging or anything so i would say it probably raised the comp but it didnt raise it to the point of detonation... |
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