A ride in the ricer

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I think what we are missing here is the cylinder pressure (in psi) that an engine developes. Now we can do that normally aspirated or with boost of some description. That cylinder pressure is applied to pistons of some area and at some stroke.

What that means is we can develope high hp with higher cylinder pressure or with bigger pistons/stroke at lower pressures. We can also have both. Higher cylinder pressures and bigger pistons at higher rpms making even more power.

What this all means is that a bigger engine with the same cylinder pressures will always beat the smaller engine at the same rpm. The only rub here is that we have to keep the engine together at the rpms where we make the power and we have to withstand those cylinder pressures.

I know this is sort of a rambling conjecture, but I hope it makes some sense. What we at MW usually want is high everything, and that makes ass kicking power against anything else, especially the smaller CID imports.

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