Which Is Faster - 600hp@6200 or 600hp@7100

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Which Is Faster - 600hp@6200 or 600hp@7100

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I'am going to ask the same question I asked on the Chevelle forum.


"Which engine is faster down a dragstrip and why"




A 427 that makes 600 HP @ 6200 RPM
A 427 that makes 600 HP @ 7100 RPM

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More rpm is more gear.. more gear is torque multiplication. .
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if they had a cvt then basically the same but the lower rpm engine might have less losses in the transmission and more to the wheels but not much.

In reality you need to compare the hp curves not the peak of you want to get anywhere
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I would say the 427 that makes 600 hp at 6200 rpms because that suggests it might make 700 hp at 7100 rpms.
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RPM is wheel speed and wheel is MPH, look at Warren Johnson's record. In his heyday he consistently had the fastest car. NHRA has limited the rpm and now 210mph is considered fast, of course the rest of the combo has to be adjusted to work as a package.
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Theres two answers on here I like a lot =D> . Same exact curve except one is 900 RPM higher.
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Whichever one is geared appropriately to the powerband will have a better ET, but the MPH will probably be the same no matter what.

More likely, if the engines are the same displacement, they probably make about the same amount of torque, so they can't be "the same curve". I am going to assume that the higher revving engine sacrifices a little bit of peak torque for a softer yet longer powerband. So the higher revving one probably is putting down more average HP in each gear, assuming that the one with a lower RPM horsepower peak lays down early.

Power curves are not peak numbers, but you can infer a lot...
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I like the higher RPM engine every time



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vortecpro wrote:Theres two answers on here I like a lot =D> . Same exact curve except one is 900 RPM higher.
Shifted right by adding a constant factor to rpm or by multiplying rpm by a constant factor? In the latter case, I'd say I couldn't guess which would be faster. Equally fast up to my abilities.
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I suspect 600 hp @ 6200 will be faster. The engine making 600 hp@ 7100 will be making less hp @ 6200....
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Geoff2 wrote:I suspect 600 hp @ 6200 will be faster. The engine making 600 hp@ 7100 will be making less hp @ 6200....

But the 600HP@6200 makes less HP at 7100RPM ....

If you shift the 7100RPM engine at 7800 then it wont fall back to 6200RPM on the shift.. So does what it makes at 6200 have any real value?
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The engine making more power at lower RPM has to be making more average torque. If the chassis is the same for both then whichever engine the chassis is set up for will work best. If you optimize the chassis for each engine, the lower RPM engine making the most average torque will be the fastest. Although the difference will be tiny. Assuming the lower RPM engine has more compression? Raising the peak power rpm, it will make more HP so there will be the faster of the two
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The higher rpm peak version 427 , when geared properly, will make car faster. More power cycles in the same distance, so more work gets done.
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Higher rpm. Every time (assuming both versions are optiminly geared for their respective power bands).
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Whichever has gear & converter to keep the motor closest to peak hp rpm for the whole pass.
Or whichever makes more average hp in the range dictated by gear & converter.

Rpm makes no difference, but usually the motor that peaks at higher rpm will be easier to keep near peak hp.
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