Horsepower

[Stephen Dubovsky]

>I pretty much agree for car engines. Some motorcycle engines are getting
>up to 1.25 ft-lb /in^3 torque which must be over 100% volumetric
>efficiency.  The curve I'm looking at now (Honda CBR600F3) has 75% of
>it's peak torque at 4500 rpm and still has 85% of peak at 13,000 rpm. 
>It's actually a pretty wide torque band. Just think what they could do
>with fuel injection. 

  They would be a Ducati 916;)

SMD

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Stephen Dubovsky
dubovsky at vt.edu
95 Yamaha FZR600 - to go fast
83 Porsche 911SC - to go a little faster
84 Jeep Cherokee - to haul things that go fast