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nowadays everything is becoming "smart" - smartphone, smart-glass, smart watch, smart fridge, smart dryer, smart umbrella, smart chopsticks, smart bin and so on -a , so they've had enough of it
I see, and I don't like it more than you do, but I thought it would shorten conversation.
Dyno, and testing rigs generally are pretty complicated devices, with thousands of kilometres of wiring, computers, data acquisition units, while bunch of engineers monitoring simultaneously hundreds, if not thousands of parameters. It would be my guess that one doesn't need a car for quite a while to develop a pretty good engine. For me mock up as it was suggested in here earlier is a dead end.