{"id":83887,"date":"2007-05-06T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T07:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=83887"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:06","slug":"compression-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20070506\/everyday-events\/compression-boost","title":{"rendered":"Compression Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_48265362_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_48265362_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It&#8217;s rainy out\u2014the town is quiet and I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled about it \u266a<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m taking apart the head to push things even further \u2605<br \/>\nLast night&#8217;s hesitation was about installing titanium valves.<br \/>\nThe factory titanium valves are incredibly common, and if I reuse them, it&#8217;ll lighten up the valve train,<br \/>\nand I was getting excited imagining what kind of change we might see\u2014<br \/>\nbut after two hours of research on Google, I realized it would be tedious and the costs would add up,<br \/>\nso I gave up.<br \/>\nWhat I&#8217;m taking apart is the previous owner&#8217;s engine head (GS1200SS).<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in beautiful condition\u2014really nice shape. For now I&#8217;ll soak it in carbon solvent and send it out for machining soon.<br \/>\nWoohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;It&#8217;s rainy out\u2014the town is quiet and I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled about it \u266a Now I&#8217;m taking apart the head to push things even further \u2605 Last night&#8217;s hesitation was about installing titanium valves. The factory titanium valves are incredibly common, and if I reuse them, it&#8217;ll lighten up the valve train, and I was getting excited imagining what kind of change we might see\u2014 but after two hours of research on Google, I realized it would be tedious and the costs would add up, so I gave up. What I&#8217;m taking apart is the previous owner&#8217;s engine head (GS1200SS). It&#8217;s in beautiful condition\u2014really nice shape. For now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-83887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}