tried that thought, had hell of time getting engine set on flow bench. couldn't hook up the bench to intake. gave up on it!! constant flow gives you a measurement of flow. it's accurate. superflow, has a article about that.
Have seen a 300 six cyl ford set up to run on three cyl and used the other three as a compressor. sounds like an idea to set up a 8 cyl to use as a flow bench for 4 of them.