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Old March 5th, 2008, 02:11 PM
Jeasen Jeasen is offline
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Higher Compression

Thanks Dr. Boost and V6gofast for your reply however they were 180* apart so I am right back where I started.

Anyone else have any thoughts for this question?

I tend to agree with V6gofast. It would seem to me that the Buick engineers set the compression ratio at 8 to1 because of the octane rating of pump gas available. Due to the much higher octane rating of E85 we could probably get away with running a higher compression ratio in a none boost condition. Also a higher static compression ratio would equate to more power and performance in none boost conditions such as cruising and equal better gas mileage.

I would sure like to hear some more opinions before I make up my mind on which way to go on this.

Jeasen
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