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Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?

by Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 3, 2008 at 09:35 PM

Stan Weiss wrote:

> As Nate said   "Aluminum heads shed heat"
> "all other factors being equal, allow you to safely run a half point
> more compression on the same octane fuel than do cast iron."
> 
> But since most Aluminum heads are after market or late model factor
> design and most are some what better engineered / more efficient
> combustion chamber design, they can run more compression.

There are a lot of REALLY ****ly-engineered aluminum heads available, 
too. They're not in any way guaranteed to be better than well-prepped 
stock iron heads in terms of chamber design, but they will still have a 
thermal conductivity advantage.
 




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13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
"M.Burns" <m  2008-04-29 21:34:19 
Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
Nate Nagel <njnagel@[E  2008-04-29 22:01:29 
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"Pete C." <a  2008-04-29 21:23:56 
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"Mike" <mik@  2008-04-30 02:43:14 
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"Steve W." <  2008-04-29 23:16:36 
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kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-30 09:00:58 
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Stan Weiss <srweiss@[E  2008-04-30 11:05:25 
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spamTHISbrp@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-30 09:41:27 
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Stan Weiss <srweiss@[E  2008-04-30 13:40:28 
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Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-03 21:35:28 
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Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-03 21:34:05 
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N8N <njnagel@[EMAIL PR  2008-04-30 09:45:17 
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"mr.som ting wong&qu  2008-05-04 11:36:37 
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"wstiefer" <  2008-04-30 10:36:13 
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"John Kunkel" &  2008-04-30 11:42:58 
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"Steve W." <  2008-04-30 16:24:59 
Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
Dyno <dyno@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-30 22:53:13 
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"John Kunkel" &  2008-05-01 11:39:51 
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N8N <njnagel@[EMAIL PR  2008-04-30 13:28:24 
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"Steve W." <  2008-04-30 17:58:28 
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Nate Nagel <njnagel@[E  2008-04-30 18:30:10 
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"Steve W." <  2008-04-30 19:46:42 
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"HLS" <nospa  2008-04-30 20:08:57 
Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
Don Stauffer in Minnesota  2008-05-01 06:55:56 
Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-03 21:32:37 
Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
Stan Weiss <srweiss@[E  2008-05-04 01:57:00 
Re: 13-1/2 to 1 compression ...on the street?
Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-04 21:13:39 

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