4 cyl engine advice needed

[Justin Guest]

Thus the need for a low static CR in turbo/super charged engines?

SO going back to your original point about Vizards book. If my friend who 
has an MGB GT applied some of the principles described they should work?

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>No, the B series engine does not have a crossflow head.
>The reason you can run such a high compression ratio is that there is a
>difference between the "geometric" compression ratio and the actual pressure
>in the cylinder .
>A whole bunch of factors determine the sort of "geometric" compression ratio
>that one can use in an engine.  Like it's natural immunity to detonation, for
>example.  In the case of the "a" and "b" series engines, it is the fact that
>you can't get much actual air into them, therefore the actual cylinder
>pressure is rather low compared to it's geometric ratio.  The actual cylinder
>pressure is what you need to be concerned with.  Different "Geometric"
>compression ratios can have different affects in different engines, though
>they tend to be similar in most engines.
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