:The higher compression also notably hurt spoolup response of the turbochargers. This is due to the fact that the higher compression engine will convert more of the thermal/pressure energy into mechanical force on the piston and less of that energy is available out the exhaust port to get the turbos wound up. On the other side of the coin, a low compression engine will spool the turbos up notably quicker than the same engine with higher compression. This can be seen in a few TT's that have been built: Joel Grannas's Sport-600 powered TT and my own personal Z32 - both of which are at about 8.0:1 compression.
I am not one to doubt you Ash, but have you only seen this trend in Z32's? I am sure you can agree with me that this at first is counter-intuitive. I would be interested to read more info about this. Perhaps there are some journals out there that explain this.