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Re: causes of high compression?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 3/19/2009

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And therein lies the mystery, Kevin.

Thirty years ago, I saw engines that had a stack-up of production tolerances that resulted in a higher than normal compression ratio. In most cases, the detonati... Login to read more.