Octane ratings

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Octane ratings

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Trying to figure out if 9.5-1 compression is 87 or 89 octane friendly.
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Not (nearly) enough information to answer...

Best go here and download the calculator and see what it has to say...

http://www.empirenet.com/pkelley2/DynamicCR.html
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It is more cylinder pressure than compression ratio. Lobe separation angles can have as much effect as the compression ratio. Generally 9.5 would be getting toward higher octane.
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