While were discussing torque and horsepower I'll throw some 1.6 and 99 torque numbers into the mix. These car weight/foot pound of torque numbers come directly from the Drago dyno graph, which from this side of the world are commonly viewed numbers. I converted these numbers to pounds. Then I by hand marked these pound numbers onto a copy of the Drago Dyno graph at a point where the torque line crosses the rpm line. At some rpm's the 1.6 has a larger load in pounds and at some rpm's the 99 has the larger load in pounds.
RPM 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 6,000 6,500 7,000
1999 +25 +45 +43
1.6 + 151 + 350 + 243 + 83 + 4
With everthing else being equal, after attaching these pound load numbers to rpm's it's galaringly truthful to what we view with a 1.6 and a 99. Let's not say we never race below 5,000 rpm because we do, just as we race at 6,000rpm and above.
I do have my asbestos suite on.