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Re: over bore vs high altitude
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Posted by john d on April 03, 2002 at 14:01:47 from (205.188.192.172):
In Reply to: over bore vs high altitude posted by Bob on April 03, 2002 at 13:46:39:
Probably not a lot of difference. If your tractor was a "distillate" model that started on gasoline and then switched to distillate, you have a low-compression head. If that's the case, the high altitude pistons will simply put you at about normal compression for a gas engine. You won't gain gobs of horsepower with either one by itself, but together you could get a very noticeable increase! There's no substitute for cubic inches when the tractor starts to lug under a heavy load. I'd say that if you're only going to do one of them, do the overbore kit. If I was into that many $$ on it, I'd do both.
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