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ok who has milled there gt40p heads???????

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Bay_Stang

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i keep lookin for someone who has done this and i find all these forums rants but never anyone saying theyve done it and wat if any problems they ran into. someone help me out
 

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They can be milled what is your concern with milling them
 

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.030 is about the most you will want to go. Thats about what most people do on average.
 

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My dad milled them down to 58cc chambers. No issues at all.
 

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ok thanx for the input. i dont have an issue about milling them i just dont want to go cutting on them and have to change a bunch of things to get my valvetrain geometry back where it needs to be. changing pushrods etc. i dunno im planning on rebuilding my motor soo ill juss plan on investing in the piston i need to get my desired compression back rather the cutting up the head
 

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Don't quote me but i think you might still need shorter pushrods...i don't know if .030 is enough to make a difference there.


As 25th kinda hinted, you're mainly milling them to achieve a certain combustion chamber cc, so keep that in mind.
 

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yeah i know thats the whole reason i wanted to mill them. but now im thinking it would probably be less of a risk and a little smarter to just plan on raising my compression properly with the pistons rather than trying to quick fix it by milling.
 

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Bay_Stang said:
yeah i know thats the whole reason i wanted to mill them. but now im thinking it would probably be less of a risk and a little smarter to just plan on raising my compression properly with the pistons rather than trying to quick fix it by milling.
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Well, people do it every day and it works....i would agree that pistons would be better if you're already building an engine, but if you're on a budget and you're using a stock block, you can still get away with the .030 mill and still run a decent cam profile. Like i said i'm not sure on the pushrods though but even still that's cheaper than new pistons.
 

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pushrods could possibly be cheaper. but its a really old motor and really should be redone before i go on with the intake heads and cam. sooo i might as well. summit has a nice kit ive been lookin at for the 302 for $879.00 and i get a summit discount through school soo posibly less. anyways thats the plan now i need to figure out wat if anything needs to be done to correct the quench area with using the bigger cc heads. thats the next order of buisness before i order anything. check out the pic of the kit......View attachment 337730
 
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