Yep Mike, with those things the engine would be more efficient.
What we've been able to establish with the 7.8:1 440 and this 8.9:1 engine is that higher compression isn't absolutely necessary to make pretty good power. You can make an engine with a lot of parts you just have laying around. Of course if you build a new engine designed with specific parts you'll really have something. After this mornings runs the heads will be removed and we'll make some modifications to them and perhaps dyno some more tomorrow.
We have a lot of data from the pulls including fuel usage, bsfc, egt and fluid temperatures that I generally don't publish. We do keep the water 175-180 degrees and the oil temps to around 155-160 for the pulls.
These trials are specifically to test some of our cylinder head theories but of course there is a possibility of oil, intake manifold and other tests.