I like it.
This part pertains to what's been on my mind while planning a stroker:
DCR is almost completely useless but it is the oversimplified way of explaining something most people wouldn't be able to or wouldn't care to take the time to understand fully.
You could run two completely different cams and as long as the intake valve closed at the same time they would have the same DCR yet power output would be completely different, where the motor got detonation would be completely different, the VE curve would be completely different but you wouldn't know by looking at DCR.
Effective compression rati tells you much more. It's not as easy or easily available to properly calculate unless you actually have some form of VE curve tables but even without them you can tell quite a lot about cause and effect. Going from a 250 cam to a 276 cam will move the VE curve up in the power band. With the same compression the motor will make less power in the lower RPM because less air in entering the motor per rev. At higher RPM the motor will ingest more air and therefore make more power.
Since detonation is much more likely in lower RPM the reduction in filling in that area would allow you to run more compression. This will help you recoup a lot of the power lost from the reduced VE in the lower RPM. A high performance motor with big cams and properly matched compression should be able to make similar power numbers in the low to mid RPM as it's stock or mildly tuned counterpart while making much more power in the upper RPM.
The idea of building higher compression, and using more cam duration / overlap to bleed off some of it.
Keep your low end torque, make high RPM HP, and have a wicked idle. :)
I'm sure the idea has been hashed to death. Seems too good, too easy.
