Quick update for peoples reference. I found a picture of my Mcleod bearing before it was installed many years ago and spotted it has the number '1430'
pevans Today, 09:31 AMThey are good threads and explain things much better than I can, but the essence of what is written is what I was trying to explain in my last reply.
Darnpistonbroke Today, 07:37 AMAt this point, I think it best to give links to the two articles I relied on the most as a basis to my posts:
https://mgaguru.com/mgtech/power/pp105.htm
I have to disagree that the camshaft has anything to do with the compression ratio. The CR is fixed for a given engine. The camshaft dictates how much,
Darnpistonbroke Yesterday, 09:21 PM
What do compression gauge numbers mean?
The side note you quoted is what some of us used to call the "turbo effect".
Chris1 Today, 10:16 AMIt was great wasn't it, free horses !
Chris.