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Yep. The bone head "hot rodder" who couln't make it past the first quiz in Physics 101 who says HP doesn't matter, it's torque doesn't understand what a transmission does.

With a 100:1 worm gear reduction, I can get 600 ft-lbs of torque from a Briggs. How will it do in a Cobra compared to a 550 ft-lb 427W? My money is on the 540 HP Windsor, not the 8 HP Briggs.

One other nice addition to the graph would have been a limit line on the rear axle torque representing where you'll have tire spin limiting acceleration in first gear (and second and third in many cases)

Good article. Thanks for posting.