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Old 12-16-2014, 09:31 PM
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I am building an 04 ls1 with 243 heads. My question is will I gain a lot of horsepower with .027 head gasket pumping compression to 11 to 1 versus the stock .051 head gasket which should put me at 10.5 to 1?
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I would guess 3% increase across the powerband?



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