Surely there must be a way to check for deck height before assembly. I'll have to do that, because we might as well try for maximum compression on pump gas. I've kind of resigned myself to milling the cylinder heads to reduce the chamber volume. I don't think milling heads is very expensive. We can just mill the block to make sure we have zero deck height, but the kit does not show flat top pistons. So how do you get a zero deck height when the pop up piston is sticking up proud to the block?