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Old 28-11-2006, 23:50
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Originally Posted by Beany-s12
surely the increase in boost pressure that he's lookin to gain from doing this will over compensate the loss of compression!

but the ET is already a low compression engine, at 8:1 it's lower than a lot of turbo engines of the same era, newer turbo engines seem to be running a lot higher CR. the Audi/VW 1.8T is 9.5:1 for instance. IMO you don't need to go lower than 8:1.

The engine I'm building will have re-worked combustion chambers but I will skim the head to compensate
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