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From: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: How many Volvo B18/20 owners? (reply to pinging of B20 problem)
Message-ID: <2810@watvlsi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 13:01:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 13:01:26 1985
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Reply-To: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Organization: VLSI Group, U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

When I rebuilt my B20 (at 90k .. for something to do) I
noticed that the single carb B10 used a lower octane fuel.
This was due to a thicker head gasket that lowered the
compression of the engine.  Since high-octane fuel was
scarce, and anyone who owns a 145s/B20 probably doesn't
care about performance :-), I used the thicker gasket.
I have no problems running on regular gasoline.

If you decide to go with the thicker head gasket don't
forget to get the correct water pump gasket o-rings as
well.  They have to be longer than the regular ones.

			Kevin
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Kevin Szabo' watmath!watvlsi!ksbszabo (U of W VLSI Group, Waterloo, Ont, Canada)