You feel acceleration until you stop accelerating. Cars will stop accelerating if drag overcomes engine power if there are no electronic limiters (which most cars have) and if the gearing allows the car to reach its theoretical top speed, and if the gearing syncs top speed with max engine output. In other words, horse…

The v12s pulses would overlap. At some point multiple cylinders would be in a power stroke, actively turning the crank. Their torque would add up (sort of, since it’s not uniform for the stroke)

So instead of this applying to every vehicle ever created you managed to apply it to a vehicle that is exactly unlike any ever created?

The engines produce torque only during theor power stroke, a pulse with a 25% duty cycle. If you offset the pulses so that they do not overlap, at any point, at most one of the engines will be actively turning the crank. So they can’t push twice as hard. The pulses will be coming in twice as often, but the crank rpm…

Force times distance over time.

They don’t make torques because their equivalent of crank throws are really short. The magical Dorito doesn’t have a big lever to turn the crank with.

Take a hypothetical 4 stroke single cylinder engine with 1 power unit and 1 tq unit. Rotate it 90 degrees, and connect it to a second, identical engine. tq remains the same, power just doubled.

HP plot would be best, but it’s hard to compare. Whats better, a slightly higher peak or a slightly wider band? It depends.

But peak hp doesn’t necessarily contain peak tq. Only peak numbers are ever quoted, and they aren’t necessarily relevant.

Now my hungry children will have to cry themselves to sleep. hope you are happy.

Unless youre body parts are tied to the drive train, you don’t feel torque, you feel acceleration. The whole point here is that acceleration and peak torque do not have a direct relationship.

Except that isn’t true.

I think the confusion originates from trying to describe complex systems with just one or two numbers. Engines don’t have a single power or torque output, they have curves. At the very least it’s a 2 dim curve that includes rpm, realistically it’s multi dimensional mess that include all kinds of stuff.

That is the almen a4. It had 36 spark plugs.

Yes, on a V8!

Relative to the ranger at least. I used to own one (the last of the bubbly ones), but set out to buy a ranger. F150's could be had for the same price or lower, with the same fuel economy, but more power, and better interior (rangers had a very economy, punishment feel in every dept). There was no way to justify a…

Someone call Koenigsegg, we need a new kind of one:1.

I thought the ranger went away because the f150 dropped in price until there was no point in buying a ranger anymore.

Just to clarify, we are talking about the cars that had giant fins and trying to look like jet fighters of the Era, right?

On ice, there is no difficulty with locking tires. Even the flimsiest of rear drum brakes should be able to handle the job without difficulty.