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Message: <blockquote data-quote="castine917" data-source="post: 1381476" data-attributes="member: 11473">Not sure of your knowledge level.  No offense intended if your knowledge was above this.  Simplest and not always true is that every point of compression is worth an amount of power but also more likely to detonate.  On average, your gasoline street cars range from lazy 8to1 to raucous 11to1.  Generally you want a forced air engine closer to 8to1 or 9to1.  Forcing air increases heat and leaves less safe zone against detonation.  To add to confusion is usually people talk static compression but sometimes they talk dynamic compression.</blockquote>