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Old 10-19-2008, 12:06 AM
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building a high compression 306 for my 91lx. 5 speed 4:10's blah blah all the bolt ons. its gunna be a street car on pump gas but i cant decide if u wanna stick to 10:1 or go up to 11:1 compression. what would be better for the street and normal use without any problems?
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Old 10-19-2008, 12:44 AM
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for street and normal use i would stay around 10.5 and probably not go over 10.1 for a mostly driven street car

and if thats not enough throw a 100-150 shot on that biiaatch and then it will really haul some a**
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10:5 would be good for spray? seems a lil high
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it would be fine
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