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Originally Posted by Tom W View Post
Bill: You've probably noted it somewhere (but I can't seem to find it). How are you calculating the thrust? You've piqued my curiosity and I want to make the equivalent calculations for my car and potential gearing.
It really is fascinating to look at this stuff in different ways
you need;
1) overall gear ratio, individual gears and cwp
2) rear wheel torque #s @ rpm from a dyno
3) revs/mi of the rear tires to get the tire constant

tire constant = 5280/(2*Pi*revs/mi)

thrust = ROUND((overall gear ratio*torque@the wheel)/(tire constant),0)

to graph you need to determine the other axis, I chose speed

speed = (rpm*60)/(revs/mi*overall gear ratio)
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