How about some content.
In short.
The author of the article you read is both correct and yet at the same time incorrect.
To gain large HP you need lots of air. In order to burn lots of gas at a 14.7 to one ratio. In order to bring lots of air into an engine you need to do one of three things.
1.
Use a big engine (nothing is better than large cubes for creating power)
2.
Use a higher redline.
3.
Use forced induction. (lets ignore superchargers because they were not mentioned in the original question)
Lets start with number two.
Up untill the last 8 years or so, there was no efficient way of bringing RPM high enough on stock engines to match the HP gained by boosting and still leave the engines streetable. This all has something to do with cam performance. In the recent hondas BMWs and Toyotas .. the list gets longer every day variable valves now allow this to be possible. There is still a price to be paid however. With these smaller high RPM engines that gain near to or over 100HP/Litre the torque output still does not match what could be accomplished from an engine of equal horsepower using one of the other two strategies.
Example Honda S2000
On to number three.
Turbo charging turns weak despicable cars into high powered monsters. 100HP/Litre is easily attainable and these cars still have better torque numbers than the cars in group two. A small amount of lag can be noticed when exiting corners.
Example
Subaru STI
On to number one.
There is no replacement for cubes. big engines = big horsepower = big torque even at lower RPM's. (This is why import freaks secretly love and hate the American V8's all at the same time) There is no lag on these engines its just hit the gas and go baby go.
What is better?
I think a big block finely tuned will dessimate most any engine in the other two categories. So in a way the author is correct. But when you compare groups two and three I find there is more drivability in the cars classed in group three than group two, thus making the author incorrect.
What is scariest, combinations of the above ...
big download 8MB
ITS WORTH IT!!!!
http://fasttrackperformance.com/page.../ChrisTTGN.wmv
Thanks to whoever showed me this vid in the chatroom that night Oldman?
jokes.......
"Skoolin' the unlearned!"
Still pretty bad ass though. He pulls mid 8 second 1/4 miles too.
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