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You could fit a Cometic layered steel head gasket so it will act like a decompression plate, i had a 1.9mm thick one on my vl to lower the compression enough so it wouldn't ping but i don't know how that will affect the push rod length. To do it properly you should fit some low comp pistons but that would be a 2k exercise but you will have piece of mind knowing its done correctly.