Russ linke

[Stan Weiss]

Originally Posted by SBillinson

This thread needs to die.

The guy had a thin head gasket and got bounced. It's not like he had a super stock engine in the car.

The last I knew, 0.050" decked from a set of small block heads gave you a point of compression. He had less than a third of that, maybe a quarter. Would it make a difference? Maybe, but it's not worth a tenth. Besides, how many heads up runs does anyone see in eliminations? Sure, he was running class, but the guy races a lot. He has no need to cheat, especially at the most obvious place to check..

For those who don't know, he's a good guy and a excellent driver. He comes from a racing family of nice people.

Move on.

A 4" diameter hole is 0.205926 cc's per 0.001" of thickness


Stan

[Cameron Collins]

Could the head gaskets been packaged wrong from the dealer?

[FED 387]

Not sure how the incorrect thickness head gaskets got put on that engine BUT we always mike our gaskets to get the thinnest gasket we could find to get every last bit of performance and we would end up using those that were the thinnest AS LONG AS IT WAS THE CORRECT thickness----who did or didn't measure them ,who installed them etc. makes no difference--- they were the wrong thickness PERIOD--- so the driver has to suffer the consequences, you can go back up the food chain if you want to "warn" people or put people on notice about repercussions for future infractions but that doesn't take away from the fact that he is/was wrong---the penalty was expulsion--- FED 387

[Jeff Niceswanger]

I know exactly what 4 or 5 CC's are worth. I spent all one summer trying to figure out where it went. I won't get into slinging around where the boo boo came from, but at Edgewater one year we sprung a water leak. Dave Layer was our traveling buddy ( Good Lord do I ever miss that guy) and we gave him both heads to find where the water was coming from and fix them/it. He called me the following Monday and said "its just a spring pocket. Its fixed. You want me to fix these CC's while I'm at it"?. I answered "I just got that motor back from freshening over the winter (Edgewater was the first week of August). He said, "Well their off 4 and 5 CC's". Upon fixing them the tenth I had hunted all year instantly came back. I don't know how much the gasket infraction truly was, but I know what 5 cc equates to on our 993.

[dartman]

Originally Posted by Cameron Collins

Could the head gaskets been packaged wrong from the dealer?

that does not matter