Alloy heads

I'm at 195 on iron heads with the cam straight up. I can move it 2, maybe 4 degrees ahead and be over 200 and it STILL won't have an issue IF you built the combo around it, and IF you can tune.

What I'd rather do is pull the heads and put the thin gaskets on and move the CR to 11.25:1 and leave the cam where it is.

NOBODY is questioning your MAD enginebuilding skills.

All I'm saying is that I have witnessed aluminum headed engines WILL tolerate more cranking compression before octane related issues start showing up. Don't muddy this up with your MAD tuning skillz. J.Rob