Ed,
You are playing in the wrong field here..
8.8 to compression and big cams is allllooot different than 11:1 with big cams.
I have a much, much lower compression ratio than that (less than 7.5) in our cars (with 1600cc) and crane 18's which I think are bigger than the crower stg3. Our car Idles smoothly at 1100 rpm and it has an idle mixture of about 12.8 when warm and 10.8 when cold. No oil issues or cylinder wall wash down. When you have cams this big alot of fuel goes out the exhaust and never gets burned, because of the low compression (causes lack of velocity in the port at slow speeds) the fuel falls out of suspension. I think chris's car sounds like crapp in that video too, but if that's the overlap that he needed to make the power he did then thats the sacrifice he his willing to make to have the highest hp street srt4 (for now anyway..
). Personally, I would rather give up 30hp than have to deal with that idle and it would probably spool quicker and have more midrange power at the same time.
