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Originally Posted by cgeise

I see all this back and forth about 2.3 - 2.5 - -2.7 per cid. but I see so very few trying to get there ? The reason they don't is two fold - or three depending on approach. First for a lot of guys is the expense, there is a point that the dollar per tenth of improvement gets astronomical -- I have a chart some one did and it gets really crazy at the upper limits. Second is just plain "WHY" Id say 98% of us are some form of bracket racer or index racer, you could probably count on one hand the number of guys running true heads up, so where is the need??? I admit that SOME of the information gathered doing this kind of thing trickles down to the mass's -- but it takes a long time and some of it is not applicable to bigger engines. The last is -- it is just easier to build it bigger -- stress it less and make as much or more HP. A 400cid at 2.5 per is a 1000 hp and a high maintenance bitch to run and take care of. A 560 cid at 1.8 is over a 1000 hp and way easier to build and maintain. So - for the four or five guys that want that small engine stuff. I get it --kinda, but for the mass's I think its big muscle that seems to be the way the majority of the racing world is headed.
And we haven't even talked about power adders :-))))))))

Well said Curt! Hmmm I think there is someone else that agrees with you on the cubic inch thing....



http://rehermorrison.com/tech-talk-2...-displacement/

http://rehermorrison.com/tech-talk-6...of-the-giants/







And hay Curt ! Best of luck to you and Clint this year!