It was said here, and it is said everywhere ...
There's No Replacement For Displacement, we've all heard it many times - to the point where it sounds like anyone who says it hasn't taken the time to really evaluate "the situation" about making power. When someone says
There's No Replacement For Displacement, right away you think "ok, this guy ain't gonna waste his time with this, he's taking the easy way out". That's too bad, sure it's a common catch phrase that rolls off the tongue easily, but it carries with it so much more. That phrase comes from some exhaustive motor tweaking by the best motor builders in the world. These guys have run every permutation and combination of stroke, bore, redline, comp ratio and God only knows what else. I'm sure the genesis of that early work was the desire to come up with a new formula for engine performance. Fast forward after millions of hours spent wrenching, millions of $$ spent on parts, millions of trips to the dyno. In the end, they all became members of the
There's No Replacement For Displacement brotherhood. Take it with a grain of salt, so deserving from its' casual delivery. Then after you've been around the block with those "better ideas", you'll recognize this wisdom and be ready to join the brotherhood
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