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Originally Posted by churchx
86 South Africa: how differs %of whp you complain about vs torque improvement you are asking about? 
Or you wrote rather about shape of torque curve, preferably without infamous torque dip? That can be fixed in stock engine too with different aftermarket exhaust headers without any engine itself rebuild, so i hardly see it being among most important objectives of this engine build endeavour. |
I don't know what the "importance" of it is. Depends how you drive I guess.
The torque is one of the negative aspects of the stock engine... so what I am keen on seeing is how much torque the NA build will produce + how the torque curve looks in the end - in other words, instead of bolting on some FI that solves the problem it will be interesting to see how this built motor will deliver it's power.
No measure is perfect, but a % increase is much more comparable because it negates much of the actual hp numbers people quote. 10% is 10% whereas 10hp is ? If you had 500hp to begin with then 10hp isn't much - but if you only had 20, then 10 is great.
Also different dyno's read differently + each car will have slight differences (even on the same dyno)... so therefore the obsession with hp numbers is silly. So what motor can/can't make "200hp" for e.g. is a silly comparison. That's all.