318 Build.. Zero Deck or Stock Deck Clearance?

DJones942013 said
I'm glad you and 72bluNblu mentioned this. I had no idea the KB 167 has a required ring gap. Didn't look for a spec or info sheet before I sent them to the machine shop for the the boring to be done. The The problem with decking the block and why I was asking, was the machine shop my block is at right now does not assemble anything and will not do the deck clearance measurements. I would have to get it back to my house, measure it and then send it back. I found another machine shop that will do the measurements and deck it, but that was just extra money and a day off work. Which I really did not want to do that to make sure I had days for The Nationals in August, and in case life happened and I needed days for whatever reason. I plan to measure the clearance when I get the block back to see where it is at then make a decision. If the clearances are close in both banks I may not mess with it being it will primarily be a street car and just use a thinner head gasket to make a little of the difference up.

If you don't have the cash to pay a shop to measure and cut appropriately, I'm thinking you don't have and accurate way to measure deck height at each corner.
If you start thinking you're over your head, just have it cut .004 and call it good.
If you do and can, even better.
Now I hate to see people argue over what you should do with your motor, and honestly for the most part, and overall, it will run fine if you decide not to run it zero deck...however, it would be a complete and utter lie to say it wouldn't run a lttle better & have 'more torque at all rpms' if you do zero deck it and run a higher 8.5-8.6 dynamic 91 octane...you would also be running less total timing due to a faster burn as well, that might make a smidge more mileage. Either way, people shouldn't get into it with eachother over it. Good luck.