Another 87 octane/aluminum heads question

Ramchargers are awesome, had one for a decade. Never let me down.

You haven’t complained about power needs. Why tear a young engine open? I’d suggest you leave the top end shut until you start seeing signs of problems where you need to change the heads.

Instead, work on the new fuel injection. There are many brands and styles. It’s going to take some time to tune.

The tune is going to dictate if you’re going to have problems with the your new heads anyways, if you run lean and try to move that heavy truck with a lot of throttle, you will detonate. If you run on a razors edge of higher compression and combine with low octane, the tune and timing need to be precise.

There are a lot of fuel injection systems out there now. I run megasquirt, and I can tune fuel and ignition timing on-the-fly.

It definitely doesn't run lean, AFR runs 13.2 at 2500rpm according to the wide band o2. I built it with low/mid range torque in mind, no complaints on power. It is thirsty though at 10 mpg, the lack tunability being the reason I want to upgrade from the factory TBI.

Question. How would I see signs of a seat getting loose? Oil pouring out of a tailpipe from the hole in a piston, a dead miss and one hell of a knock?