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Old 02-17-2015, 01:56 PM   #11
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Shiv what do you think about the current automotive power metrics of peak whp/tq, and our proposed metric of finding the 'area under the curve' via integrals and calculus?

Would this be feasible? What are you thoughts on how people measure and discern the power of a combustion system?
I think that is the best way to quantify power/power gains. In fact, we employed the same calculation back in the late 90s when compared power curve (area under the curve) in Sport Compact Car magazine's Ultimate Street Car Shootout
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