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Originally Posted by mattles
To broadly answer the questions of how you run boost on an engine with 12.5:1 CR:
Learn to tune.
Compression ratio doesnt prevent boost from working, nor does it cause an engine to blow up fantastically.
To put it very simply, the amount of fuel and timing is what essentially keeps your engine from knocking and eventually exploding. Figure out how to safely and reliably supply the needed fuel while running an appropriate amount of timing, and like magic the engine makes a metric fuckton more power without blowing up.
Im not gonna sit here and say its easy -- it takes time and patience to learn how to modify the tune of an EFI vehicle safely and reliably -- but its not exactly rocket science either.
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Well put. I remember seeing some notes from the guys tuning my car and on the "to-do" list was "Finish magical tune" haha.
The car really does feel different at different RPM's. At some points the tune is perfect and others it needs some fine tuning. They aren't finished with my car yet though. We are running Meth however and that helps with knock.