OK but you used NHRA specs to make a point and used them incorrectly at that.
Calculators are tools. Mock them all you want but I’ll base whatever I’m doing on data and fact.
None of that makes sense or has any relevance to the discussion. It also sounds as if you’ve been living under a rock for the last 50 years.
Which is true for all walks of life. Your point being?
No one needs it but it’s fun to have it. I don’t think anyone is talking about building a 700 hp street 383 engine either. I used the example to illustrate that to run a number within a particular racing class, you’d need *** hp to do it. Not sure how you twisted that around?
Why even bother with a V8 then? I personally wouldn’t be happy with such mediocre output. I wouldn’t advertise it either.
You make it seem like using tools to gain information is a bad thing. Don’t mock what you don’t understand. understanding comes from knowledge and knowledge comes from information. Right?
Honestly though, your arguments are mostly emotional ones. Engine building is a technological pursuit based in fact and hard numbers which is the opposite of emotion.
Have fun making less power than the engines originally came with.