Originally Posted by NChatch

one of the biggest reasons we(honda poeple) used such low compression for the past decade was because we had no other way to counter detonation, and a decent form of tuning, it was "jerry rigged" shit such as FMUs, inline pumps, piggy backs, AFCs, check valves and crap like that. dont get me wrong we were going 10 seconds in 1996-7. but the internals were so beat up after about 10 passes.

now we have so many choices for tuning, and such precise tuning at that. that we can raise the compression ratio a bit if needed to bring in a bit more torque, and kwiker spool(only by a tiny means), and make just as good if not more power.

there are many people(hondas) above 10:1 that are boosted and making crazy reliable power, and high numbers as well


if there is anything i have learned over the past few years from quite a few people on here such as NA200whp, 60-1ek, mtber, vertigo, to name a few is that the best build is worthless if you arent going to tune it with a proper EMS