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Old 04-06-2009, 06:56 PM   #24
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I'm not going to think of this as riding a bicycle, because the amount of torque I can apply at 50 RPM is much greater than the torque I can apply at 200 RPM. If I could apply the same torque at 200 RPM, I'd be stressing my knees just as much, if not more.

And my reference about the 1500 RPM max torque was a BMW 135i which is a turbo charged gas engine. Imagine how "lugged" that car will be all the time. How foolish of them to let the car have any torque below 4000 RPM.

Regarding the cooling, you are burning less fuel at lower RPM and getting more mechanical work per volume of gas burned, so you need less cooling.

At 800 RPM you might be lugging the engine. At 1500 RPM, I don't see how that qualifies with an engine capable of variable timing.
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