- Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:25 pm
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, What I meant by this is all about the compression ratio is still true... I think you are missing my point.
Higher compression ratios can only handle a small amount of boost safely (properly built and tuned by AMS or tinkered by a 16 year old in his friends garage), whereas a low compression engine can handle more boost... So your ability to safely boost a stock Honda block is minimal.
Compression ratios limit how much extra air CAN be compressed by the system safely; stock motor or full build race motor.
You couldn't say, build a balls to the wall engine made of all the the strongest materials known to man. Give it a 15:1 compression ratio and 40psi of boost and expect it to run. it just simply cannot be done. The air would be too dense to compress and/or the fuel would reach combustion well before TDC thus stalling the engine because it is trying to rotate the other direction.
Now with normal Honda parts you just end up breaking stuff. The physics behind this is what drives how much an engine can handle.
Strength of the components and compression ratio are the variables.
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