That wasn’t an insult. Explain to me how much more money it is to build a 10.5:1 engine as opposed to the same engine at 8.5:1 because I’d like to see it.
I just did a very mild 340 with a measured 10.28:1 compression ratio. Nothing trick and it’s will run on 87 pretty easy, but I don’t like doing it.
It would have been the same money to do less compression, and it wouldn’t run early as well.