Joe, that's the most logical performance analysis I've seen on this forum in a long time, and it's based on your own experience, not some cut and paste information from some obscure source on a website somewhere, submitted as "personal" experience by some windbag keyboard jockey. Your research reinforces the impressions I've gotten from decades of round track racing- - - - -either build a street engine, or a race engine, but don't expect race performance from anything that can be driven on the street at a variety of speeds and traffic conditions. If an engine is designed to go fast and last a short time, use it for what it's designed to do, and be willing to put up with all the downsides of your work. Doing that on the street will make you very popular with your local traffic court judge- - - -as he puts the vacuum cleaner to your bank account!
Jerry
