[blykins]

OK, here's the deal and I'll be straight up with you.

I know you're trying to meet a deadline, but if you just start trying to make pieces fit together right now, you're not gonna have a well-built, reliable combo.

You shouldn't have pistons sticking out of the hole by .015" and you're having to compensate by running very thick gaskets.

Now granted, your quench distance is still good at .045", but it's just a backwards way of making a nice street motor.

I just ran some numbers and with those 22cc dish Probe pistons (installed .015" out) with .060" gaskets, and AFR heads, you're gonna need a wild solid roller cam so that you'll be able to run pump gas again. With that wild solid roller comes a very high peak and a ton of lost bottom end power/torque.

If you're dead set on running a solid roller, the smallest cam I can recommend (with you still running pump gas) is the 35-772-8. You will most likely have peak hp at 6800-7000 with that cam and your bottom end will be lacking. Keep in mind that with that same cam timing on my 428FE, peak power came in at 6500 (with out of the box heads) and the peak torque was at 5400.

If it were mine, I'd find another set of pistons that would work with your deck height....or at least give you a larger dish.

My second choice would be to run a hydraulic roller so that the advertised durations would be higher and you would be able to keep the DCR down so you could run a reasonable octane.