Re: [T3] Compression Ratio Recommendations

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

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> 1)  keith, did berg bother to tell you to advance the motor timing
> before i did?  and how did it run without that knowledge?

Yes... actually Clyde said 35deg,, but until I measured the pully I was just
getting things approximate from the Curve in the Bentley.  Ran worse with
less advance... richer idle.
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> 2) my notch, today in 85F weather ran very cool (180F) oil temps.  it
> has 8.7:1 CR and is on pump gas.  this is on mahle pistons and
> cylinders.  i have been told for years that you can't do that on the
> street!  even the semi-local VW shop says that thing can't run oil temps
> that cool, and my gauge has been claibrated too.  now, if i ran this
> motor at 7.0:1 CR i would get about 15% less horsepower and not any
> benefit to my cooling system.

I had a motor that was in the low 8's once because the heads had been cut
during reconditioning.
It would detonate unless I ran 92 oct and kept the timing around 5 deg lower
than reccomendation.  It would run too hot... lowering the timing more would
kill the gas mileage,  What more could I have done??  I think Brians sucess
is based on the "Whole picture"... including the cam and other aspects of
the setup... someone mentioned this and I think that getting everything
chosen properly is the key to sucess.  Unless your an expert, and very
knowlegeable, your at the mercy of the other experts... Which do you
choose??   I chose Berg... maybe not the best but certainly one of the
better ones.

Keith



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