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    Quote Originally Posted by eticket
    and it has to get good gas milage

    I had thought about the crate motors, but was concerned about the compression ratio, I thought the crate 426s were about 10:1, and I didn't want to go past 9:1 for a blown street motor I thought was the norm, but I could be wrong.

    Thanks for the help so far, but no one has given me a definitive answer yet, still looking for that "Oh it has to be ...... because of....

    Mike
    Blown Hemi and good guess mileage don't even belong in the same thread!!!! Blower engines should be 8.5:1 or less compression based on how much boost you want to run... Look in the PAW catalog as someone suggested, there's everything you need, nothing left to do but write the check!!!! Here's a link http://www.pawinc.com/, phone number is there, just call them up and get the thing ordered.
    Last edited by Dave Severson; 03-30-2007 at 07:02 AM.
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