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Originally Posted by Deslock
Did I claim otherwise? I don't hate FWD because it's slow (it isn't). I hate FWD because (all else being equal) it's not as fun. Of course, all else is not always equal and I'd rather drive a MCS than a V6 Mustang. But thanks to the FT, I won't have to settle for either of them.
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The fun part is bitch slapping those AWD and RWD cars with a FWD...
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Originally Posted by Deslock
You used the term wtq to describe something that is not wheel torque (after I thought it had been explained).
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It sounds like you are just being anal retentive. It is the standard measuring device, do you have a new method of acquiring the wheel torque that the rest of the free world is unaware of? Please do share. It is what we have to work with across the board period. I never stated a gear was going to be exactly 1:1. Cars are dynoed in the gear closest to 1:1 is what I stated. Like I said, if you want to design a system of measurement that finds out 100% down to the tenth degree, then have at it boss.
But to sit here an nit pick a common talk of wheel torque vs engine torque (being that wheel torque is in reference to a dyno measurement) is just being anal. No one cares that you think it doesn't represent the 100% accurate number seen at the wheels. It is common calculation and talk among all enthusiast. They don't sit there go...."well, it isn't really wheel torque you know, because X this and Y that..."
If the gear is multiplying the torque then so what....If that's what makes it to the ground, then that's what makes it to the ground.