Ideal Drag Race Bore and Stroke

The answer above hasn’t been the current answer for decades.

The answer is:

P
L
A
N

That is the only answer and thats what the answer is.
Back in the 80's I talked with Bob Glidden and Robert Yates about these things. When Brett Miller and I were planning this 441" W5 engine that he built for me. I told him the things that Yates and Glidden told me. He told me that pretty much everything that we believed back then has been proven wrong. And when we dyno'ed the engine all the things that Brett wanted to try on my engine worked.