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Originally Posted by Malt
Furthermore, I don't understand the fascination with peak HP numbers. As an example take a mythical car that makes 200HP at 7000rpm as its peak number but makes like 100hp almost everywhere else in the rpm range. Now compare that to a car that makes 190hp over the entire rpm range. Which would you like to drive?
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A more useful (but humbling) number would be "80% of the time, HP is over X". Perhaps further separating into street and race RPM ranges. But then tuners wouldn't look as good for that one tiny spot their intake got a 5whp improvement, so this'll never happen.