Originally Posted by
CRXer
sorry liam,i wasnt trying to compare my second gear to yours,i was just sending out some sympathy cos i know what its like competing with a tall second gear in my little shitbox 1000kg class.
the point is how much torque at 7500rpm,"stock" k24 cams?
even with as much as 50% torque conversion between 1st & 2nd gear,u might find your car making 50% less torque at 7500rpm.
u cant compare different cams,cos as soon as u change the cam profile uve just lifted the mechanical limit imposed by the stock cams.
it doesnt matter what breathing mods,how much u fiddle your vtc,or what other NA tricks u try to introduce more mix into the motor,u r still stuck with the fact that the stock valves will only open for so far & for so long,with the stock cams & u just cant supply what the motor is demanding at higher rpms.
500rpm is along way relative to running out of cam efficiency.
the only way your gonna get more mix in the motor,short of changing the cams is to pull the head & hack away at the valves & ports or cheat with forced induction or different gas other than atmospheric air.
honda would of already given u a head start on getting the most out of the stock cams from the factory,so your window of improving their efficiency would be even smaller still.
when u use terms liking "climbing hard" it just leads to people assuming your misinterpreting the power band.
if uve got no torque curve present on the graph,just hold your power curve graph at 45deg clockwise & then look at it. It will give u a better understanding of where & how fast the powerband is dropping away.
dont forget power is just torque proportional to rpm.