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Johnny B Good wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:52:36 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Just to see if I was missing something that others found so obvious, I
asked this question on a forum designated to engine building and tuning,
etc.

'At what point on an engines output do you get maximum acceleration?'

And the answers were near unanimous. Peak torque.

I'll take the views of those guys over the bar room mechanics here any
day.

Ah! I see your problem now. If, as you've seemingly posed the question,
we're discussing, "When does the maximum instantaneous acceleration over
the operating rpm range of the prime mover occur in any *one* gear ratio
at a time?", then the answer to *that* question *will indeed* be at
maximum torque rpms.

Have said this countless times. But didn't stop others saying this was
wrong - or introducing countless red herrings and moving of goal posts.

It's what started the original thread and caused Vir to start this one.

But it seems he's not alone in having little understanding of basic
mechanics.

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