re: Why not a crowfoot
I'd much prefer a box-end 12pt. wrench. There is much less metal in the way with a 360º wrench compared to the jaws on a 2pt. open-end wrench. Clearance is tight already. A personal point of view only. I haven't tried a crowfoot, so there isn't a whole lot of merit to that view...but there it is nonetheless.
re: High compression gasket kits
Don't understand the thinking of that. 1. There is more than compression increase when the base gasket is changed. If it is understood how your port timing will change and you
want that to happen, great. 2. RB-Designs will modify your kdx head including the squish-band (he doesn't just cut metal off the bottom of the head) for $45. That's a bit from, '...without expensive high-compression pistons or cylinder head work.'
Another point of view that doesn't have much merit to it.....I haven't ever used a high-compression gasket kit. If something doesn't make sense to me from the gitgo I don't feel the need to
prove that it makes no sense.
Maybe that's another point of view with no merit to it. It might even be a
dodgy point of view! ;)
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Good info from Rhodester.