Quote Originally Posted by TODA AU View Post
Yonas's car has a high peak power but makes no torque.
Peak power & peak torque arrive together at 8500rpm.
My apprentice's EG6 makes only 110kw but loads more torque than Yonas through the rev range.
Though they have the same car, he runs 13.4 @ 100mph with 9kw less.
More area under the curve makes for a quick car.
High peak power numbers are fairly meaningless if the power delivery isn't linear.
Everyone a simple way to understant to make light of what toda is saying..

If you own or have access to a coppy of nfs underground 2 try this.
1. build a supra 100 percent.
2. then go to tune.
3. peak everything to do with power right up last bar on tuning the highest (turbo and engine)
4. run on the dyno and look at the graph. (high power+torque in high rpm range)
5. test it on the quater mile, take not of your time.

Now start again but with do all of the above but with step 3 and 4 do this
3. try and run the power up from the 1st bar to a level and try and keep it as flat as possible.
4. dyno (your power and torque will be lower. but the power and torque should not tapper off and will be very flat)

when you do you quater you will realise you have done a faster time much easier. but you will probably have a slower mph, maybe 10+. this is because the car 2 isnt designed for higher speed but getting up to a high speed faster then car 1 and the quicker and more time you can spend at a higher speed then car 1 helps you cover more distance faster