Originally Posted by polyspheric
but then you need heads for them

and a crank, and a cam, and an intake manifold, and a pan (and motor mounts, a driveshaft?).
IMHO this is only practical when you've reached a point of development where more inches is better use of money than the existing available parts.
Makes boost look cheap, don't it?

A thousand here..........a thousand there.
Pretty soon , you're talking real money.
But yeah.........I saw an 807 " Billet everything in a carbon fiber '71 Mustang at Houston Motorsports park last summer and I haven't been the same since.
Bickel built , four stages of spray.......it was literally more car than they had track for.