I find Bruce's statement "the people living that far back in the woods are still milling the tops off of their pistons to drop compression" extremely comical for 2 reasons:
1.) Considering the work he himself went through milling those Oldsmobile pistons to fit and balance in one of his customers Pontiac engines.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rvandegrift/fulper.htm
2.) Surely he must have employed a similar method of determining the optimum total timing setting for his Super Stocker (either on a dyno looking for max power, or at the track looking for max MPH).
Was Bruce wrong? Absolutely...trouble is the THEN editor of HPP didn't have the balls to simply print the facts as presented to him by Jim and leave it at that...he had to kiss Bruce's a$$ by proclaiming "he's not neccessarily wrong, he just does things differently".
cdrookie...you've had your heads for 4 years but the car isn't ready yet? Sounds like a plumber I know from Westerly, RI (except that your car is running and his heads are probably still under his bed).