Anyone done any simple machining for performane? (archive)

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Anyone done any simple machining for performane? (archive)

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Posted by Dino on June 10, 2001 at 22:43:18:

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Such as:

increasing the compression ratio by shaving the heads?
Smoothing out the manifold ports?

I've heard these are common things done to any engine. How "rough" is our German engineering on the manifolds? What might be a consequence of raising the compression ratio?

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