[DavidBoren]

See, the dumb mechanics of it are actually what is important to me.

I understand that tuning can make up for deficiencies. I understand that tuning can make the torque hit early in a short stroke, big bore motor.

I want the parts involved, the ratios, the entire design and architecture to reflect what the engine us built for. You can look at a T-rex skeleton and know it belonged to a carnivorous critter. All it is is a set of jaws with some legs. Without cam cards or timing tables, I want you to see exactly what the motor is good at, just based on design.

I want what it is physically, all the ratios and geometry of its design, to reflect what it does or excels at. I don't want to tune an engine built one way to operate differently.

I want to build MY engine. Based on what makes sense to me. If it doesn't work, if what makes sense to me fails, then I will start over, with some new knowledge and experience to help improve the next one.

It's not a test of any particular principle or another, it's more just to see if what I think SHOULD work actually does. If it does, great, being right is awesome. If it doesn't work, great, learning to do something right is awesome.

It's more about the journey than the destination for this first engine build.

Regardless, it's all but impossible for me to screw this up. I am going to end up with an LS motor with the same, or better, displacement, redline, and head flow as the LS2. And nobody questions how potent that 364" small block is.