Understanding Torque

[Gaz64]

Originally Posted by eschaider

Your observation and assessment and every example you used is spot on, Mike.

You are being kind when you suggest that his comment should be interpreted as a flat torque curve gives a lower peak, not average. It simply does not. Flat is flat and if he is talking torque, essentially the same torque at all rpms is not a lower peak it is the same everywhere.

If he was implying that a flat torque curve yields lower hp this is also a canard. HP is torque x rpm divided by 5252 (HP= TQ*RPM/5252). When torque is flat increasing RPM provides a linear increase in HP exactly proportional to the increase in RPM.

What we have with this guy is someone that read a few articles (maybe even books) collected some data (not clear if it is empirical or actual) used an XL spreadsheet to make some pretty graphs and began proslytizing his own version of the physical sciences as applied to a fictional performance for a vehicle in his mind.

Like most unschooled and uninformed shotgun approaches, some of the pellets come close to the mark but most fly far afield. Same thing here. This guy missed the mark by a country mile but the story sounded good and the graphs sure seem to support his argument. This is exactly how urban legend gets started.


Ed

This is the best response I have read yet.

Could not have summed it up better,

Gary