| They are related, but not necessarily synonymous. You can increase VE and not necessarily increase or decrease HP/L. You're leaving out necessary variables, and to say one denotes the other is a fallacy. If VE and HP/L were synonymous, increasing the timing would effect them both equally. VE does not change significantly with a bump in ignition timing, it does however change the thermal efficiency and HP/L significantly. Again, the issue is you're leaving out variables, saying "all things being equal these are equal" and that's an oversimplification. A rarity for you, unless you're caught making some ridiculous statement and you need to fabricate a cute bit of logic to side step it. VE and HP/L are related, but are not synonymous anymore than VE and TE or TE and HP/L are synonymous. Yes, they are related, and yet they all denote fundamentally different measurements of "efficiency" (some more valid than others). VE is nothing more or less than the amount of actual displacement relative to the volume of the engine. HP/L is horsepower per liter, or:
VE = La / Ld
HP/L = HP / Ld
Now you're claiming they are equal, so we can simplify to say Horsepower = Displacement. The problem with that is readily evident - you've left off all the minutia that make engine development an engineering field. This is a pretty fundamental flaw in reasoning, and I don't really think you believe this so much as you want to shuck and jive enough to try to prove yourself correct, with an incorrect thesis - a hobby you practice on ttnet to no small degree. These equations are not equal.
Recursively Yours,
Kenny...
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