Compression Ratio

Rat Bastid said

As hard as this is for me to say, there is more to compression than horsepower.

Now I’m going to go throw up.













Now that that’s done, you can’t look at dyno numbers only and compression ratio. There is more to it than that and a water brake or eddy current dyno can not measure that.

Horsepower is KING, but you don’t get all the info from the dyno.

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couldn’t agree more. As an example, take a 10 to 1 small block stroker, and a 12 to 1 stroker.
the difference might be “ supposedly “ 25 horsepower or so, but when you get that car to the track, the acceleration and shift recovery are going to be night and day different.
compression really effects a time slip, way more than the 3 or 4% gain typically bantered around on non stratosphere type compressions…..ie 16.5 pro stock motors.
any chance/ way I can to raise squeeze, I do. Partially because I will run whatever fuel is required, but also because the torque and crackle are great byproducts. And the slip is definately gonna look much nicer