"Doug" <anothername@access4less.net> wrote in news:1162934584.258573.35140
@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> Everyone is all hot on torque, but what matters is power. You just have
> to shift down to get the power you need. Look at the rock crawlers,
> they have gears so low they can go 1 mph at 5000 rpm! Power is what you
> need. Torquey motors give good power at low rpms, which is a kick I
> guess.
>
> Diesel fuel has more btus (watts) per gallon than gasoline. Diesels
> engines can be run at higher compression ratios because engines wont
> ping with the diesel fuel. I think just about all diesel engines are
> fuel injected (but so are gas now). Anyway, both work. Personally I
> don't like the noisy, dirty, stinky diesel (prefer gasoline), but they
> do work well. Make an engine with really big cylinders and big flywheel
> and you will have a torqy sob no mater what fuel you use.
>

Even *if* you have a slushbox with high stall-ratio, you *will* have to put
your high-power/low-torque engine through that gutless range from idle to
peak-power.
Or do you jam your slushbox into Drive after you revved up the engine?....:))


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Willem-Jan Markerink

The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand

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