LQ4 compression with AFR 205 heads
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Hi all,
Stock bore LQ4 with stock dished pistons. Going to be running a set of used AFR 205 heads, 66 cc. This motor is going into a short box square body with a btr stg 3 truck cam. 218/224 .553/.553 113+3 .
The heads are used. I'd feel better about them sealing if I had them milled. Also willing to mill extra to bump the compression.
How much should I mill and what would be the resulting compression ratio?
Stock bore LQ4 with stock dished pistons. Going to be running a set of used AFR 205 heads, 66 cc. This motor is going into a short box square body with a btr stg 3 truck cam. 218/224 .553/.553 113+3 .
The heads are used. I'd feel better about them sealing if I had them milled. Also willing to mill extra to bump the compression.
How much should I mill and what would be the resulting compression ratio?
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This motor is getting a gm mls gasket .051 with a 4.02 bore.
What are the benefits of keeping the compression down around 10.5 ish with the small cam? Downside to going higher? Thanks in advance.
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.020 milled would put the compression around 10.5 ish? I've tried those online calculators and I must be doing something wrong. End up getting an odd ball number irrelevant to what I'm seeking.
This motor is getting a gm mls gasket .051 with a 4.02 bore.
What are the benefits of keeping the compression down around 10.5 ish with the small cam? Downside to going higher? Thanks in advance.![The Patriot !!](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_patriot.gif)
This motor is getting a gm mls gasket .051 with a 4.02 bore.
What are the benefits of keeping the compression down around 10.5 ish with the small cam? Downside to going higher? Thanks in advance.
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on a side note, would this mild cam be ok with stock rockers on the AFR's bronze guides? I've read on other threads that guys moved to rollers to keep from prematurely wearing the bronze, buy those guys were running a much higher lift/longer duration cam than myself.
Thoughts?
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The bronze guides are too soft to handle ANY side load for any real length of time, hence the roller tip requirement. The amount of lift has little bearing on it. AFR demands roller tips be used on all their bronze-guided heads.
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With a clean up cut being .004"-.007" and 65 cc chamber volume I got 10.02:1
A .020" cut should land you at 63 cc and 10.25:1
Tony Mamo who used to be an AFR engineer told me that the factory rocker tip does most of it's scrubbing/valve guide damage at lifts approaching .600" lift
Keeping it in the mid fives like your cam "should" last a good twenty thousand miles or so and lets face it; most combos get changed and/or switched out prior to that....however YES....AFR does suggest the rollers for the valve guide wear
A .020" cut should land you at 63 cc and 10.25:1
Tony Mamo who used to be an AFR engineer told me that the factory rocker tip does most of it's scrubbing/valve guide damage at lifts approaching .600" lift
Keeping it in the mid fives like your cam "should" last a good twenty thousand miles or so and lets face it; most combos get changed and/or switched out prior to that....however YES....AFR does suggest the rollers for the valve guide wear
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Man so much to consider. Id love to keep the stock rockers, they are stout. With only having .55x lift how much side loading can there really be?
I've seen many pictures of broken after market rockers on this site. Granted, many of them are from 8-10 year old threads, but reliability is king. It almost sounds as if I'm going to take a reliability hit with these heads either way. In the forms of possible rocker arm breakage or probable guide failure?
If a roller is in the works...whats a reliable and economic brand to run. I was just on summits website eyeballing their summit brand 1.8 ratio rollers. Anybody with experience with these.
How about replacing the guides with stock style hardened ones? Is that something that people do and if so is it cost effective?
I've seen many pictures of broken after market rockers on this site. Granted, many of them are from 8-10 year old threads, but reliability is king. It almost sounds as if I'm going to take a reliability hit with these heads either way. In the forms of possible rocker arm breakage or probable guide failure?
If a roller is in the works...whats a reliable and economic brand to run. I was just on summits website eyeballing their summit brand 1.8 ratio rollers. Anybody with experience with these.
How about replacing the guides with stock style hardened ones? Is that something that people do and if so is it cost effective?
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Stock style is powdered iron, FYI.
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You could sell those and replace with the CNC Trick Flows 205 that use stock sized valves flow nearly 300 CFM AND have the powdered metal guides that are stock rocker arm friendly
Else Howards sells a decent roller rocker arm.....heavy but you're not gonna need to be shifting at 7 grand or anything
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Could do that but it's expensive since another valve job would need to be done
You could sell those and replace with the CNC Trick Flows 205 that use stock sized valves flow nearly 300 CFM AND have the powdered metal guides that are stock rocker arm friendly
Else Howards sells a decent roller rocker arm.....heavy but you're not gonna need to be shifting at 7 grand or anything
You could sell those and replace with the CNC Trick Flows 205 that use stock sized valves flow nearly 300 CFM AND have the powdered metal guides that are stock rocker arm friendly
Else Howards sells a decent roller rocker arm.....heavy but you're not gonna need to be shifting at 7 grand or anything
Side note. Does anyone know if these heads take stock GM head bolts/head gaskets/valve seals?
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Texas Speed & Performance sell their own steel body roller tip rocker arms.
http://www.texas-speed.com/p-7364-te...oller-tip.aspx
http://www.texas-speed.com/p-7364-te...oller-tip.aspx
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Texas Speed & Performance sell their own steel body roller tip rocker arms.
http://www.texas-speed.com/p-7364-te...oller-tip.aspx
http://www.texas-speed.com/p-7364-te...oller-tip.aspx
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The jury is still out on whether aluminum roller rockers can live long on the street. To each their own. To play it safe, a nice roller-tip steel rocker like TSP's would work well and live long doing it. I know Comp sells steel roller rockers too, but have heard very little pro or con on them
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The jury is still out on whether aluminum roller rockers can live long on the street. To each their own. To play it safe, a nice roller-tip steel rocker like TSP's would work well and live long doing it. I know Comp sells steel roller rockers too, but have heard very little pro or con on them
I would assume these would be suitable for heads with bronze guides?
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I don't see why not.
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Nothing chintzy about yella terra. Mine been on two years at .650 lift