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JBurch said

If you are going to use KB 167's, DO NOT, REPEAT DO NOT Think or try to raise your compression by tightening up your ring end gap!!!! Thinner head gasket, OK; cut the deck, OK; cut the heads, OK; just DON'T close up ring end gap from KB's instructions.

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Excellent point, thanks for bringing that up. The hypereutectic pistons require a specific ring end gap, and deviating from that spec can and has caused those pistons to fail. They're good pistons but you MUST use the specified ring gap because of the metallurgy of the piston.