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Originally Posted by serialk11r
I think you guys don't understand what I'm talking about. Torque isn't what pushes you into the seat, acceleration is. You have to know exactly how much the car weighs, exactly how much acceleration you have, exactly how big the wheels are, exactly what the gear ratio and final drive ratio are, and exactly the speed of the engine to know what torque is.
You can't feel torque as a number, you can only feel it changing because it is proportional to acceleration.
If you were put in any car without being told these specs, and you were asked to guess how much torque there is, you wouldn't be able to do it. Even if you were given the displacement (which puts you in a pretty small ballpark of possible figures) you wouldn't be able to. You can't just sense what the gear ratio unless you have a stopwatch and you measure how fast it takes to rev however much rpm, and have something to compare to.
I was calling bullshit on the 170 ft-lb number, because it is simply not possible to spit out an accurate number for the maximum torque of the engine just by sitting in the car. If you still don't believe me, maybe you should go relearn some physics.
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I am going to choose to understand that as a friendly recommendation. :happy0180:
We should be respectful of our fellow forum members. :happy0180:
Good luck, sir! :happy0180: