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Old Apr 12, 2005 | 07:29 PM
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Is there something magical about that number? Not skeptical, just wondering where it comes from. Thanks for the help.
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Old Apr 12, 2005 | 08:08 PM
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The 9:1 CR ... nope, just seems like a good target number +/- .2. This way you can give it a fair amount of boost and still give it a decent amount of timing without going to low on the CR and not having enough boost to make it effecient and having to give it to much timing.

Don't ask me why, cause I'm not gonna get into it in public, but get HPTuners and ditch the mail order tuning. Trust me on this one ....
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Old Apr 12, 2005 | 09:34 PM
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I don't want to spend any more money on the setup I have right now, but when I get my new stuff put together I was thinking about taking a road trip to TX to visit Nelson Performance, although it would probably be better long run for me to get something like HPTuners. How hard is it to learn that kind of stuff? I'd have no idea what I was doing right now, don't know timing from KR from my
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