Originally Posted by alistairolsen

Again, ignore torque completely, you have more power at those RPMS.

People look at peak figures and chat about them and then realise as youve pointed out that two cars of the same peak figures can have completely different characters, so then they look at the other headlie figure, torque and piss about trying to explain it with that (Diesel owners are the very worst)

People then look at dyno plots and go on and on about torque. RPM is a linear scale, torque is measured, power is your available work rate and thus ALL that matters.

So look again at your power curve against rods, yes the peak is similar, but Rod makes and exceeds 750bhp from 6500 to ~8250, while you have it from 6000 - 7250.

What Rod comes back to time and time again is that when you are at ~200mph and trying to make that final speed what matters is the gearing putting you at peak power, because if your wheel speed is fixed by the speed you're doing, more power will always deliver more torque to the driven wheels and accelerate you faster. THAT is the torque which matters, not peak engine torque.