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Old Mar 12, 2004 | 05:49 AM
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Originally posted by Zate
i've been thinking about this alot lately.. what if you could program it to stay at a certain RPM.. yet increase gearing ?.. ie.. your max torque is at 4000 RPM .. so when you floor it.. the engine holds about 4000 and the gearing changes at a rate to allo wmaximum acceleration ?.. so in effect youve always got the perfect gear ratio for the amount of torque your producing ? ..

or would you do it at the RPM of max HP ? ... would you slowly move it upwards from max torqu to max HP while increasing the gearing ?

any thoughts ?
You're exactly right. This is the very reason I was suggesting that this could have some seriously cool applications in motorsports.
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