VERY TRUE!! I suspect that when the HUGE HP numbers start cumming in (ha) that the common rail motors will rule the roost. Remember, the VP44 was just a stopgap en route to the common rail engines. The common rail will be the king of fueling. I suspect that we are not far from the common rail putting our enough fuel to make Piers Stupid pump look like it's spitting through a caffee stirrer. The common rail has the WHOLE RAIL pressurized! That means that the pump does NOT limit fueling in any way. All you have to do to get more fuel in a common rail engine is hold open the injectors longer and/or make them flow more.

Are the common rail's injectors electric or cam-operated? If they are electric, then SERIOUS HP is just a box away! Cam, is a little more involved.

The superior airflow of the 24V design PLUS the almost unlimited fueling of the common rail design is THE recipe of the big numbers. I would suspect that a highly developed Common Rail engine with triples and enhanced head sealing could hit 1200HP (and about 1800lb-ft)<br><br>You could build a VERy hairy, yet streetable 3rd gen with just some EDM 4s and a (yet-to-be-developed) fueling box.HOHN