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Simmo wrote:
>
> I Am just building an 1835 for my 67 Notch an am up to setting the deck
> height using shims so as to obtain a compression ratio that wont blow my
> heads off but will give me plenty of power.
>
> Standard 1600 engines had a ratio of 7.5 : 1 and the 1500s had 8.5 : 1 as
> far as I know.
>
> I am thinking of going for around 8.0 : 1 for mine. It will be a daily
> driver so I want it to run cool but, ofcourse, I want as much power I can
> get out of it as I can.
I have a 1776 in my square. I am running the CR at ~7.2:1. This was
suggested to me
by the VW machine shop that did my machine work. It runs cool, although
I don't have
any temperature guages, and I have plenty of power.
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Tim Fink
69 Squareback tfink@hubcap.clemson.edu
90 Jetta Mechanical Engineering
67 Fastback Clemson University
South Carolina
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