quote; Simple. I would provide guidance based on my own experiences on how to lay out the basics of what the engine needs to do, relate it to its target application and the duty cycle it would see, (road loads, gearing, etc.) and start backing out of that its torque output requirements which leads to displacement calculations, as well as guidance on how to make critical decisions such as induction, bore-to-stroke, mains, rod R/L ratio, fueling strategy, etc. I've got dozens of spreadsheets and calculations I'd be happy to share as well as a comprehensive resource list to I guess things are just different here. I've dedicated my career to it, love it and always enjoy the opportunity to teach it.
And you would do all that by means of E-mails over the Internet. Then, you have to assume that they will interpret what you write properly. You have the patience of a saint my friend, plus an awful lot of spare time.
Quote; but still surprised me to see and hear about all the red tags.
When I was working for a company, one of the other plumbers asked me why my jobs always passed inspection the first time. I told him that I always made sure I had an obvious violation that the inspector would see immediately, then while he did the rest of the inspection I made the "repair" and that satisfied his need to find "something wrong", but since it was fixed he gave the approval.
quote; see if I could hire someone like Cacher Chick to either do a plumbing plan
That goes back to the "interpreting what you see" rule. I have had MANY customers who used a drawing to install their own plumbing, and had to completely remove it ans start over to do it right, even though their installation was installed EXACTLY the way they thought the drawing showed it. One friend use a "correct" drawing from the city to install his new addition. When I went there to make a connection to his existing plumbing, I told him that if an inspector had seen what he installed, he would not be able to write his multiple red tags for five minutes because he would be laughing so hard. It was time to start over, and discard everything he had assembled. But, looking at what he installed and the city's drawing, I could see that he had "interpreted" it incorrectly, but it looked the same to him.