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Default The physics of cars - a question sequence.

On 31/03/16 17:08, Clive George wrote:
On 31/03/2016 17:03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Clive George wrote:
That's all there is. The available torque at various RPM is of course
unknown, depending on the engine itself.


Peak torque is always at lower RPM than peak BHP.


It has to be :-)


No, in fact it doesn't.

But it would be a weird sort of engine where it wasn't

Some engines can be made to deliver both at the same point. At the point
where the engine is revving itself to imminent destruction.

I agree peak torque can't be BEYOND peak BHP in rev terms. ;-)

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