Just for posterity who may come along later, here is what Harold Bettes said about piston area. And like Bewy says, he KNOWS what he’s talking about until someone makes claims he never did.
Right out of his book, long before he added the part Bewy posted. You can read it for yourselves.
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Sorry it’s going the wrong direction.
Look at what Harold really said.
“In general, power is proportional to piston area”.
Ok, what did he really say? He’s saying that as a general rule, a bigger piston makes more power.
Then to clarify and solidify his point, he next says “Try to REMEMBER that power IS proportional to piston area”
So power IS proportional to piston area. That means a bigger piston, with more area will make more power.
He even went to the effort to say try and remember. Evidently some don’t try and some do try to remember and still don’t.
Others just don’t give a **** if they are wrong, they just put their head down and continue bullsquirting around.
And if it was not proportional he would have said piston area is the INVERSE making power.
That’s not what he says. It’s not what the math says. It’s not what the real world says.