Those custom thick cometic gaskets can be a bit tricky to seal sometimes. I would sell it and get a golden eagle oem one. At 10:1 the pistons are flat tops and unless the piston is sticking out of the hole more than .010" you shouldn't have any contact issues.
A standard gasket is something like .027" if my memory serves me correctly and I believe a standard crown height h22a piston sits .020" to .030" below deck so the machine shop would have had to deck the block approx. 0.030 to .040" for you to even have to start worrying about that. I'd bet they decked it less than .005-.010".
Yea well its been decked like 3 times once before I brought it to the machine shop once before the sleeves and last the final deck. I think the main difference except for factory size is golden eagle copper sprays their shit so Im going to copper spray the cometic and do that pain in the ass retorqe procedure. I was going to go with GE but the machine shop and Darton themselves recommend the custom Cometic so hopefully all goes well. I also have the pistons .27 over sized so that'll make up for the little less compression i get from the thicker gasket. Again hopefully God willing everything comes out fine.
__________________
"Proven Power. Nuff Said" "God is Good"
Last edited by HaViKTypeR; Mar 10, 2010 at 01:08 PM.