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Originally Posted by ermax
In the context of this discussion it isn’t a useless metric at all. No one is saying a large displacement V8 is inferior because it has a low HP:L ratio. The point people are making in this thread is it’s difficult to go much past 100HP/L without FI. In other words the FA20 would be hard to extract additional power out of without FI or a displacement bump (even if it caused the HP/L ratio to drop). The ND1 engine on the other hand had some headroom to work with without a displacement bump or FI.
Maybe I’m missing your point though.
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In a car engine anyways.
Otherwise, all you need is high RPM and a smaller engine.. so buy a bike and 100HP/L is nothing 
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