This is one reason why I stopped matching bank statements as a way of racing long ago: there is always someone else with the same (or better) parts and more money, and you'll always be following him. When I was young (Kennedy was President), every day another 10,000 kids said "I'll build a small block Chevy" - and I wasn't one of them. How could I possibly do something that hasn't already been done?
As Garlits said many decades ago, "every real racer is looking for an engineering advantage to give him a lead - so he can develop the next one before they do". This is completely different from simply buying the best product.
My interest vectored off into "orphans", beginning with the Harley flathead motors around 1975, then the Chrysler polyspheric V8, simply because those need not (and cannot) be built with credit cards - because there is nothing available.
My current focus on the Gen-2 stovebolt is based on 2 factors:
1. not enough has been done to exhaust the potential
2. there is no serious commercial speed equipment
