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Originally Posted by Summerwolf
While you're right.... it seems this car makes it more noticeable than almost any other car you have listed.
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Well yeah, because none of those cars have ANY torque down low comparable to what's available in their powerband. The 86 is unique in that regard, that it gets a shove around 3k rpm where it makes nearly the same torque as it does at the peak of ~5k, that should be a positive, not a negative. Filling the dip would effectively mean you've got a 5,000 rpm flat torque curve which is insane, yeah a Ferrari 458 does it, but Porsche can't do it, a Nissan GTR can't do it, Chevy LSx can't do it, Dodge Viper doesn't do it, Ford Voodoo flat plane crank V8 falls off after just 2.5k, etc.
I won't begrudge anyone for not liking how the 86 feels through the powerband or wanting more torque across the board (hell I'll probably go FI someday), but it's no different than any other high revving engine, the torque dip is not a deficiency but rather a unique mark of a positive that's not typically found in low displacement high revving NA motors.
To spin it into some catastrophic design failure is just dumb imho, yeah it feels funky but focusing in on it like some do is missing the bigger picture of what is physically possible by large automakers.
The fact that you have enough torque out of a 2.0L 4-banger at 3.5k rpm to feel it drop off is almost a goddamn miracle unless you've got a turbo.