I find it facinating that as the rpms go up, the torque continues to increase. By changing the other components around the factory cams, you do not need new cams or cam gears to push the Hp and Tq curves up and to the right. Comming from a NA background, I always thought that the cams had the major influence on moving the Tq and Hp but apparently boost is a bigger factor. This makes sense after thinking about it because both influence getting more fuel/air into the cylinders.
By moving the torque peak to the right and up it makes the difference in torque even greater than the peak to peak reported by the dyno. It does this at the top end in Vtec where it is truely advantageous for passing on the straights.


At 8500 rpm for instance, the torque indicated is about 83 ft lbs greater than the baseline run. This is much more than using the peaks on the dyno that reported change of 60.7 ft lbs. All of the torque above the baseline peak at 6600 is increasing usable torque in the performance range right where you want it. Not ripping the tires loose on bottom end but almost ripping them loose on top end. This is how Honda should have made it.


TIHHSHMI

 

TIHHSHMI?

BTW if you're ripping the tires loose you can always go with bigger and/or stickier tires.

A flater torque curve is more idea because the motor output is more linear and predicaple at any rpm range.

-Ry

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik
TIHHSHMI?

 

Ugh, this is going to turn into another HP vs TQ thread.

 

More like consistant torque vs increasing torque.

 

Forgive the newbie question but what have you done to this car?

Jeremy Lucas
Team Honda Research
Kumho - Cobalt - Comptech