Thread: Shaved head limit?

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Thanks guys.Pat,this is the first rebuild,heads have never been off.
29Street-rod,thanks to inherited genetic balding I'm about half way there But you just tell people,"God gave me one face,he liked it so well he's clearing off a place for another".
Let me ask this also,instead of starting a new thread.Is there a limit as far as how small of combustion chamber a 'race only' engine can use? I have never heard anything about this in my life.If I shave .010 off these heads I will have about 58cc chamber.My quench is .045,bore 3.905,4 relief flat top piston,CR would be around 10.33:1 like this.This may be fine,I don't know but if most motors perform best with a certain quench .035-.045 most of the time,then what of combustion chamber size,isn't there an optimum size or a limit?Couldn't you get it so small that you could create all kinds of commotion? I realize that dome pistons do this but they start with what,usually around a 64cc chamber?