Originally Posted by Hydaral (Post 2097656)

To clarify, cheating in the respect that it seems like a lot of manufacturers don't try and get the most out of a N/A engine, they seem to say "don't worry about engineering the engine to the best of our ability, let's just whack a turbo/supercharger on it".

I see this all the time when reading reviews of cars. For example, a while ago I was reading two reviews next to each other in the paper, the Jaguar XJR with a 5.0 litre V8 SC engine and the Porsche 918 with a 4.6 litre N/A. Yes I know there is quite a price difference there, but the supercharged Jag is 92.8 hp/litre and the N/A Porsche is 132 hp/litre.

Every engine produced today should be getting at least 80 hp/litre N/A before going FI.