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Spanish new-car sales plunge 30.8 percent in June
MADRID (Thomson Financial) -- Sales of new cars plunged 30.8 percent in Spain in June compared with the same month last year after suffering an annual fall of 24.3 percent in May, the Spanish automobile manufacturers' association reported Tuesday.
Sales came to 114,958 units last month.
New-car sales were down 17.6 percent at 702,365 in the first half of the year compared with the same ...
 
Continental eyes electrical autos as " diesel car demand declines " ????
FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) -- Continental plans to replace what it sees as an increasingly sluggish demand for diesel fuel cars with supplies to the future trend of electrical cars, board member Karl-Thomas Neumann told Handelsblatt.
"Regarding diesel fuel, I'm more skeptical by now. There's not much happening in the U.S.," he said.
German carmakers expect the U.S. car market to ...
 
KEITH CRAIN
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For as long as most of us can remember, the U.S. automobile business has had cycles. Whenever there was a down cycle, you knew you had to hang in there, and before long, things would come back to normal. And then you would see the cycle head upward again. It's not going to be that simple this time Keith Crain is publisher and editorial director of Automotive News. ...
 
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how much more compression??
Date: 2008/06/05 22:10 By: gregc Status:  
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I have a 540 big block chevy. It has/had 11.69:1 compression and has ran fantastic on pump gas (92 octane). I am able to run 9.7s consistantly in a 3400lbs 67 Camaro. It has Profiler heads with dome pistons (I'll post a picture up in the future).

Last fall, it dropped a valve and wiped out multiple pistons among other damage. I figured this is a good time to try out some grooves.

My question is, how much gain in compression have you found that you are able to achieve running the grooves. I know it will vary per engine and that it is "significant" but I am looking for some best guess averages here. I'd like to up my compression ratio since I have to replace the pistons anyways but I need to know your idea of "significant". Is a 1/2 point bump what you are talking about? Or more like 2 points? (13.5:1)

With E85 becoming available in our area for a cost less than pump gas and an octane rating near 105, I'm curious if I could get away with a compression bump to 13:1 or better using the higher octane fuel and grooves.

Thoughts??

-Greg
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