318 build

junkyardhero said
out of everything, all the mental masturbation, the equations, the blathering on about what worked back in dickety-doo when a 12-er a schafer was $5 and classy girls didn't have snake tattoos below the knee-- the one thing that got me was worrying about the head bolts bottoming out from decking the heads.

man. tell me you haven't built an engine without telling me you haven't built an engine. i don't know, maybe it's just a minivan thing but jeeze-louise.

It was a question pretty much about the cylinder head bolts and I bet that no one thought it. But, if you think about it for a minute, if the deck height has been changed let's say by 0.012" and the heads have been milled 0.040" and then a head gasket is used that's 0.021" instead of the 0.028" that's a total of 0.059" which is almost a 1/16" of a inch. So you're saying that wouldn't affect the final torque spec of the cylinder head bolts that go in a blind hole? I disagree