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Re: Compression ratio calculation
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 6/24/2009

Good point about converting between gage and absolute pressures, Robert, but it's awful hard to ignore the basic gas laws. You just took a 10:1 engine and came up with ~132 psig on a compression test. We all know that is way low. Where the "extra" pressure com... Login to read more.