DP #24 Engine failure....

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

Drooze,
The way I've always read the rule books a Stocker engine has to be built by blueprint specs. I'm of the opinion you can't just stack up .066 gaskets to get piston to head clearance and be legal. There have to be some specs on the engine as to piston above the deck or below the deck. The way tech has treated me is if the spec calls for below the deck it can be at zero deck and below, not above. If it calls for above the deck it has to be above the deck. What gives? Are you just throwing out all the rules and doing as you please or is someone letting or telling you to overlook the rules becaue you are a DP owner? Are you posting on here how you are building an engine that won't get through tech? I think that would be the last thing I would be posting.

Drooze,
Adger is correct. I have read many of your posts and although you may have some experience with motorcycle and car engine building, a legal engine for Stock or Super Stock takes a bit more of not only knowledge, but also experience.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by SSDiv6

Drooze,
Adger is correct. I have read many of your posts and although you may have some experience with motorcycle and car engine building, a legal engine for Stock or Super Stock takes a bit more of not only knowledge, but also experience.

Been there Done that.
My Spirit had a positive deck height spec of plus .004. It wasa just a number chrysler wrote down (they never built a motor to those specs) .
I had 139,000 miles on the car when I set the record at Maple Grove. They checked the deck and it was -.030 down the bore (34 thousanths short).
Curt Lasure. Threw me out. for having to little compression. After a long conversation. in which I explained it would be hard to build a motor to there specs because the head gaskets varied a couple of thousanths Usually being about .004 thicker than the specs.
So it would be almost impossible to build a positive deck motor and have it check legal.
He told me to set up the motor with a positive deck then use 2 head gaskets. Which I did and never had another problem with tech. I believe the new Hemis use a MLS gasket and you can stack them as thick as you want.