Congrats mate, that's an amazing build. I bet you're enjoying it. 😁

Cheers mate. Still breaking it in and doing lots of checks as it all settles in. But it's good fun

ya know john [ imho ] even if it didnt perform to ecspectations,it looks the goods just sitting there.certainly a credit to.you

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Very nice bike. Well done. 👍

I saw it and thought I know that bike, it's a beauty.

7 years or so ago I had this bike built in my head, then 2 or so years to build it in reality.

Nice, what comp and cams are you looking at? 3 thou run-out isn't too bad either, mine is worse. Those big valves need decent springs, especially at high rpm, the SE springs are quality items, just hard on the train.

I've got 259E's ready for it. The motor only has 5k kms on it and I'm not really interested in going bigger cubes. The drop in high comp pistons are NLA which is annoying. Im thinking of shelving the CVO heads at this stage and getting a set of new 103 heads I have in the garage done @ Rams. Will help get compression where I want, have a reasonable size cylinder head chamber, sort the springs out, and then any gains from the porting etc. 

I would definitely look at using the 103 Rams heads if the comp numbers crunch OK.
I always thought the 110 heads were an unusual choice for the factory build.
Keeping the original 110 pistons would make a cheap build.
I'm sure the Rams heads already have suitable springs for the 259's ? 

Solid plan 👍

Yep this is exactly my line of thinking at the moment. The comp numbers become achievable on the 103 heads because the cylinder chamber drops by 10cc or so. And yep, the springs should be fine, Ive heard people have run them with stockies anyway. 
I dont think I'll be 'losing' anything by swapping out CVO heads for worked 103 heads for what I'm doing. If I was building a max effort 117-124ci, then maybe different story. Im with you in that the more you look at the build for the CVO110 the odder it gets.

Couple of reasons I want to keep the stock pistons (if I cant find the drop in SE high comp 110 pistons, and I think ive exhausted most avenues), is:
1. Theyre still very fresh

I have a nice new set of 113 CP pistons on the shelf 😮
Also a very nice set of WFO larry stage 2+ heads looking a bit lonely !
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347@28 is..... above average 😁👍

Talk to me, Im listening 😅

Front head off, just printing a razor blade scraper to get the remaining head gasket off, then will see how i go with measuring deck height and whether I can get a measurement im happy with using a straight edge and feeler guages or if I print up a tool to use a dial indicator 

I see one of these in your future 😁

Im on it currently.

Did some preliminary measuring last night, looking like 10-15 thou in the hole. Making a tool to both verify my measurements, and more easily take measurements from other areas of the cylinder to get an average. Its not rocket science in the end though.