Originally Posted by dvw
the heads are rough, not confident the cometic gaskets will seal, only reason to mill them. Nobody around here can do much less than .010.


You need to find a real machinist. We've skim cut heads .002" without issue.
Doug [/quote]

+1

When I had my 318 block decked they did a 'KISS' cut at 0.002" and it only touched in 3 places. They had to do 0.010 before it was even close to fresh metal. It took 0.020" to equalize both decks so not too bad and I had a total of 0.030" taken. So yes they CAN do 0.002" if they are not lazy.

But will 0.002" clean up the surface in 1 wack?

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