QUIKSVT said:
WELL I WAS THINKING THAT THE GUY AIGHT GOING TO RUN RACE GAS.. AS MOST OF US JUST RUN PUMP GAS.. BUT YES EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.. BUT I WOULDN'T DO IT.. I WOULD OF RAN 9:1 THEN THE BLOWER.. 11:1CR ON RACE GAS AND 6-9 POUNDS STILL AIGHT SMART.. BUT OH WAIT.. I'M SURE YOU GUYS GOT A "FRIEND" OR "READ" ABOUT A GUY DOING IT..
TELL ME THIS THEN.. IF 11:1CR AND A BLOWER WORKS SO WELL.. THEN WHY IN THE WORLD DOES EVERYONE THAT BUILDS A BLOWER MOTOR RUN LOW COMPRESSION?
You already know all this stuff as you have a '95 Cobra that's faster than the Pro50 cars with about 1/3 the hp! Rock on... I'll explain it for us lesser beings:
You're not limited by your blower/turbo on pump gas. You're limited by detonation. Lowering the compression ratio will allow you to move more air into the cylinder by increasing the boost before detonation than the other way around. It won't burn as efficiently as a higher CR with lower boost, but you'll have more than enough air to make up for that.
However, you don't have the same restriction on race gas that you do with pump gas. More than likely, your restriction will be in the turbo/blower that you're running, and in that case, higher boost
AND higher compression will result in more power than higher boost
AND lower compression.
You don't have to start arguing physics to me, I know that more air always equals more potential power, but if you're blower/turbo limited to its max air volume, as you will be on race gas, you up the compression as much as possible before detonation to make the most amount of power possible.
Did this make sense to anyone? I don't know if I am any good at explaining things.
Chris