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Old 11-02-2011, 02:39 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by WingsofWar View Post
^ yeah you want a thicker gasket, but realistically it doesnt warrant a very good CR gains or losses.

On that note.. Boxer engines are a bit funky with gaskets

EJ251-Ej255 gaskets are thinner than EJ257 STI headgaskets.. BUT EJ257 gaskets give a HIGHER compression ratio to the same blocks....weird right?
I don't know EJ stuff at all, but what else is different? Or does just changing gaskets increase it?

There's something else involved there because and thinner but otherwise identical gaskets will always increase compression...
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