Cylinder Head Porting and Power Production

"People often talk about engines as being air pumps but if you only consider them from that point of view you miss the interaction of the fuel and thats the real reason for an engine isnt it. its actually there to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy and to do that you have to follow the chemistry not just the air pump"
This is the basic montra people sing and while there is truth to this, it is also what should be the beginning, not the whole story.
Lets revisit the fact that he's making power with the stuff you all think you cant. Your still caught on airflow.......
Incorrect on both accounts.
Give a second to get up out of my warm comfy house into the sub 30* night. BRB