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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 4:28 AM
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I am building a kit car.. and I want to buy a 4.8L vortec engine and up the compression ratio.. what would happen if I just changed the pistons to 11:1 CR pistons?

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You kinda answered your own quiston but id you knwo all the info bout your engine and pistons you can go to eaglerod.com and they got a compression claculator.


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