 Radius-ing heads, Any performance advantage? |
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| krazykonrad |
 Sep 18 2017, 08:41 AM
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 Is there any performance advantage here or is it just to back off the compression ratio to avoid pinging? Thanks, Konrad |
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| Dave_Darling |
Sep 18 2017, 11:34 AM
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In theory, sharp corners would provide hot-spots that would promote detonation.
In practice, I'm not sure it matters unless you have tuned your engine to the Nth degree. --DD |
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