As some of you know I lost a dampener off my 260Z motor at VIR and cooked it late last year. The damage to the head was extensive. I had a deep channel cut in the head between cylinders 3-4, pitting, and severe warpage.

My head man was able to salvage the head and press it straight. They had to do a lot of welding to the head and then cutting of the head to make it all correct. The net result is a good head BUT the combustion chambers are tiny, like 35cc tiny. If I bolted the head on the Z with a normal head gasket I'd end up with something like a 12:1 compression.

So, what to do?

Riley at Lynchburg Nissan turned me on to these guys:

http://www.headgasket.com/gaskets.html

Who will make you a head gasket in whatever thickness you need. Did some calculations and found out what was needed to get back down to the legal 9.X:1 ratio and ordered one up.

Just thought I'd put this out there as an FYI. I'd have tossed the head but I'm out of E88 260Z heads. This tired old motor is now going to become my spare motor since Sam Neave is doing me a new 260Z race motor.