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Old 02-05-2010, 09:31 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
The bold part - That's the part that determines why I say things like "dynamic compression" rather than static. There's a big difference, and to me, static compression means not a damn thing, because you can build engines with huge static compression numbers (or, in your case, smaller compression numbers) that don't act anything like "the book" says "they should".

Of course, having read anything by Widmer, you're already aware of that.
I couldn't have said it better.
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