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Update (Thursday, 05/14/2009)

I'm getting my XR ready for another trip to Carlisle, PA for the All-Ford Nationals.  Haven't done much to the Merkur recently, since I kinda got into motorcycles over the last year or so.  I blew the headgasket in August or something and I finally got around to fixing it.  Built a new alternator bracket today (again...)  I intend to work on my tune a little more before leaving for Pennsylvania on June 3rd.  Keeping it to 12 psi this time around...  no more 20 psi experimentation.  I measured the chamber volume of my head and it turns out the static compression ratio is around 10:1.  I believe the B234 head was shaved quite a bit due to damage from a foreign object bouncing around in a chamber - there are small indentations visible near the perimeter of one of the bowls.  I am using stock 2.3T pistons for the time being.