Cylinder Head Porting and Power Production

Hysteric said
Lets get this straight!

YOU started this thread because you're smart enough to realize that there is something missing from your understanding about making power did you not?. Now the journey really begins and you'll notice no one really wants to discuss this because it challenges their dogmas about engines and how they work. I leave you with this quote from some one who new more about combustion and carburation then I could ever get the chance to learn:

"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"

I'm going to attempt the impossible and try to get this thread back on track while addressing @Hysteric .

I started this thread with the focus on why certain cylinder heads seem to punch above their weight while others yet with much greater flow rates don't.
My understanding of how to make power is not at the novice level in my estimation either.

I really think you need to read and re-read your quotation about engines being more than air pumps because I already have a firm grasp about where that chemical into mechanical energy process comes from. It is the FUEL burning which heats the NITROGEN content in our atmosphere which EXPANDS which creates the force that acts on the PISTON.

Again I would ask you if you don't think it happens this way then please tell us what happens in the combustion process that provides the force to turn the crankshaft. I asked you for your thoughts last night in this very thread. J.Rob