Talk:Brake horsepower per cubic centimeter

Proposed merge with Horsepower

Brake horsepower per cubic centimeter is a measurement ratio but only that. Not enough material to merit its own article. ronaz^Talk! 11:01, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose The two terms are too unrelated. Horsepower is a measure of power, whether of cyclists or windmills. Specific power is specific to internal combustion engines, and is a measure of their volumetric efficiency, not their power. It is very closely tied to internal combustion engines and is largely meaningless outside that context. If anything, this would be better merged with BMEP, which is more closely related. There's scope to make a large article out of this, as it stands though. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:17, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

• Confused Power density and SI derived unit are the only places we mention kg·m⁻¹s⁻³. Are $M.L^{-1}.T^{-3}$ and W·m^-3 the same or not? Internal combustion engine#Measures of engine performance doesn't even mention power/volume as an important measure of engine performance. Aside from SI and other physics units, I don't know whether hp (or bhp? or PS?) per liter, per cubic inch, or cc is the most common unit. We have a lot of questions to answer besides this merge. First question is, which article do we want to cover this in? Can we close this merge for now and have an RfC to clear this up? Then come back to this after. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:31, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

• Comment To be completely honest, from the top of my hat I wouldn't know where it would fit better. The article itself just seemed out of place. Whether it will be expanded or merged with another article, as long as it doesn't stay in it's current, 2-lines of text orphan state, I'm happy. ronaz^Talk! 07:27, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

• Strongly Oppose - should absolutely be a standalone, unless we do one "combo" article for all same-type units-of-measure (power to internal combustion engine displacement). article should be improved & expanded. Lx 121 (talk) 09:15, 15 September 2017 (UTC)