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Originally Posted by SSDiv6
I know of many engines in both Division 6 and 7 that have been bounced during tech for having a piston above the deck when it was supposed to be below or at Zero and the owner tried to compensate by the use of a thicker gasket.
I was told the deck dimension and the gasket dimension are separate. Think about it; if the spec calls for a zero deck and your pistons are below the deck, are you going to use a thinner gasket than the spec to compensate for the piston deck?
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That rule has been changed. I asked what the advantage was to have a piston below the deck when it's supposed to be above the deck. And the best they could come up with was "that i would gain piston to valve clearance" I told him he was right. But that I would accomplish the same thing with a thicker head gasket. He looked at me and I know he wanted to say "overload Will Robinson can not compute"
Later that year the rule was changed.