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Old 03-11-2011, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by madmaxx View Post
Isnt there an engineer on this forumn that can calculate the difference in torque vs weight/rotational mass? If we know the mass of the crank, rods, pistons (cam is a wash) we could calculate exactly what the difference in torque is required between small block and big block.
Crank, dampner and flywheel are rotational mass. Rods and pistons are reciprocating mass. Not sure which is more of a deterent to fast rpm and building good power, but both are bad.


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