[Jim Richards]

The 73E's engine will be upgraded after this year's DE season. I'm planning on an upgrade to "stock" 2.7RS specs. Anyway, I can choose to tweak the design to give more HP, but it will be a bit peaky, kind of like an early 911S.

What I'm trying to decide is, given the light weight of the 73E (~2400 lbs), do the tracks we drive on favor an engine with
(a) a broad torque range or
(b) more HP (even if the engine is peakier)?

Oh yeah, in either case, the driver is clueless and needs lots of seat time to figure out what he's doing. But ignore that for now, please.

Thanks for your advice!

[cmartin]

I say go for the HP. For a blast you could change the gears for some fun fun fun.

[Vicegrip]

Torque = speed from corner to corner. Max HP = top speed. We drive tracks that will favor torque for the most part. Hot camed motors are a pain in the A** on the street.

[DonNewton]

Here's an even better adage to remember: "Horsepower sells engines, torque wins races." Heard Derek Bell relate that one (my first hearing of it), and I believe it. Ranks up there with: "The way to become a millionaire in racing is to start as a multi-millionaire."

[Jim Richards]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I will go for torque. Another guy I know on Pelican's BBS advised the same thing, and even suggested that if I stay with E cams, I'll have an even broader torque range at the cost of a few HP at high rpm's. Well, that's got me thinking...

Thanks again!