Need for speed

[TONY!]

Originally Posted by Fuel

... I just found out that the last person who owned my car had the head taken down a 1/16 of an inch too far; this is why it blew a HG...

1/16th of an inch is 0.0625" ... that is 62 and a half thousandths.
If he took that much off of the head (which is hard to believe for me), you may just have the record of how much a head was milled.

Originally Posted by lethalwithasupra

can't you just fit a really thick metal gasket to raise the ratio again ?

Yep, you can. But they only come in a couple of sizes. 3mm is the thickest I believe.