No replacement for cubic displacement.

Can’t be sure what age I was when I first heard that
but probably before age 10.

Great love of stroke shines through in this thread.

No love of the wonder of nitrous has popped up -yet.

How engines work is nearly magic,
and the closer you look at little details the more “wow, that’s amazing” moments happen.

Another thing that comes out is the “winter dreaming” of what future tinkering one might do.