grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (12/20/84)
> to three different Honda owners that the compression in Hondas gets higher as > the car gets older (also the more you abuse it, it seems). We could never > Helen Anne Vigneau That is true in general (any car), because carbon accumulates in the cylinders and reduces the volume, hence the compression ratio. High-speed driving burns out the carbon. It sounds like a terrific excuse to drive fast! I have seen shops burn it out with oxygen, too. -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!{twitch|spastic}!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ