That's true I have been taking that into consideration when checking piston specs and calculating compression. Unfortunately a lot of the flat-tops I see end up in the 10.0-10.5:1 range with a .051" composite gasket. Something else though is I'm at 5000 feet above sea level most of the time and get up to 8000 feet or more at times so higher compression is required to regain some of that loss which is 25-35% total HP and torque. Forced induction especially turbos are the way to go around here, they have a huge advantage it sucks really for us old-school V8 guys lol. With that said still not really trying to go over 9.5:1 for the kind of load it'll be seeing.
