LA 318 advice

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I never questioned what you said.

OP asked how should he get more cr and he gave a few options, mainly..

A. KB pistons

Or

B. Heavy milling

And I said I prefer A. especially if there's a possibility of upgrades down the road, if there's zero chance of upgrades I could see going B.

Apparently to you, only an idiot would give that answer.

Then you seemed to take offence that I said proper pistons instead of aftermarket and that I said the KB's would have more piston to valve clearance, apparently I'm wrong and zero decked stock pistons obviously have more p/v clearance lol.

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My issue is, and still is even if he changes the pistons he will still be down the hole. a lot. So he still needs to deck it. We can all spend as much of his money as we can but it doesn't need top be that way.

Your premise that once the block is deck and the manifold fitted it's a one off, unusable piece and that's just wrong.

I've explained this before. There are no good choices for pistons with stock stroke lengths. If the piston is .090 down the hole and you get a piston that get's you to .040 down the hole you still have to mill it. Or you should if you are in there.

If he decides down the road to go with a stroker the block was still too tall.

Saying the manifold ONLY fits that block and heads is wrong. Let's say he mills the heads (the intake face and not the manifold) then you still have the same issue. Those heads only fit that short block and manifold combo.

Making the assumption that every manifold right out of the box is going to drop right. That does not happen in the real world. That's why I asked about your experience. It matches exactly what you say it does.

If you are going to test multiple manifolds and spend the time and money to do it, a smart engine builder test fits every intake going to be tested. You'd look pretty bad if went to drop on an intake and one or more of them didn't fit.

The real world isn't like forums.