Question about milling??

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02-03-2011 | 01:50 PM

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Yeah, what do people do about bolting up the alternator/PS bracket with milled heads?

Just installed some 799's on my truck milled .040 with stock gaskets, no problem bolting up the alternator bracket.

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02-03-2011 | 01:51 PM

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Guess the bore of the holes in that bracket is bigger than I thought.

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02-03-2011 | 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by dmelvin

This is what I'm doing with a set of 243 heads, it comes out to losing .49 so it'd be roughly the equivalent of a .05 mill.

It would actually be roughly equivalent to milling the heads about .060".

For example, .020" off a head gasket is a lot more volume than .020" off a cylinder head.

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02-03-2011 | 11:15 PM

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My gaskets are the .51" gaskets so im goin milling the heads .60"

Does anyone know what would the compression be??

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