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  • BangShift Question Of The Day: How Do You Personally Define “Big Power”?

    So this week I served as the host for the 2013 Diesel Power Magazine Challenge. This unique event pitted 10 of the nation’s toughest and most wild diesel pickups against each other in a series of challenges. The pulled the pulling sled, drag raced, drag raced while pulling a 10,000lb trailer, and spun the dyno [...]

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    big power needs to kill air at slow speeds for being too much torque.

    gas aint got it.


    By the time manufacture figures out this previous sentence most of us will have passed on starving to death.

    I recently watched a gaint la france engine, four spark plugs per cylinder. tiny one barrel.
    I guess 500 rpm, a torque number way out there. imagine feeding that air and fuel to a maximum.

    torque won't change, the rpms do.. and there you have the realms of power. the rpm tricks definition.. like the market.

    if you like to scream and panic like a woman, go for horsepower.

    if you want to get the job done all day for days, go for torque.
    Last edited by Barry Donovan; May 10, 2013, 12:58 PM.
    Previously boxer3main
    the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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    • #3
      need revs
      diesel doesn't have it

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