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Old 10-15-2010, 12:14 AM   #25
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Re: High compression engine and pinging

As previously noted, a cam with a lot of overlap on an engine making less than about 1.4 HP/CID just wastes power, gas and driveability. Your engine would make significantly more power (on the order of 10-15% or more) with a lower static CR and the RIGHT cam. And it would make far more power where it spends most of it's time - below 4500 RPM.

This isn't intended to be harsh, but using DCR to run a high static CR is just bad engine design on a low-power, low-RPM engine. It's a crutch to make a bad combo work - but it doesn't work well. 1 point of CR is worth maybe 1.5 - 3% MAX on an engine making less than 1.4 HP/CID or so...so shooting for high CR for a street engine *does not* make power. It's a design technique for high-powered racing engines that has made it's way into street design.

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