Hello Tom,
What a neat article
It explains what the Japanese figured out decades ago starting with motorcycles and then with cars: if you have enough rpms and enough gears in your gearbox you can whup anything that comes along.
Probably the ultimate example of this would be 1500 model airplane engines on a common crankshaft running at 150,000 rpm on nitromethane and hooked to a 500 speed gearbox. It would sound worse than a dentist's drill and go faster than most humans could tolerate
While I admire this performance, I prefer the sound, no - MUSIC, of a big block
Neat stuff,
Tom