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Old 02-03-2005, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by RichardPON
Here's a question...........

If the head has been skimmed to it's limit, does this mean that where the squish area was dome shaped, but now has a flat step at the valve seat edge, that yo're gonna be more prone to hot spots in that area?
Rich,
How do you mean 'dome shaped'?
The squish area on the head is flat in both cases, the skim makes very little difference to the squish area, it gets marginally wider towards the valve seats as you machine into the sloped chamber wall, but very little changes..

138.8mm:

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you can see the flat squish area above the inlet valves in these pictures is almost identical..