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Old March 5th, 2008, 04:16 PM
Jeasen Jeasen is offline
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Higher Compression

I found a compression calculator that calculates the final compression ratio during in boost conditions. With a static compression ratio of 8:1 + 25#s of boost the actual compression ratio is 21.6:1 and at 30#s of boost it is 24.3:1.

With a static compression ratio of 9.5:1 + 19#s of boost the actual compression ratio is 21.8:1 and at 23#s of boost it is 24.4:1.

I am not really sure of the implications of this except that with the 9.5:1 compression ratio I would equal the 8:1 compression ratio with about 7#s less boost. I seems like I could keep a smaller turbo in the sweet spot and still make the same power as a bigger turbo and lower compression. That seems like a good thing to me.

Remember we are talking E85 fuel here.

Any comments?

Jeasen
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