Quote:
Originally Posted by macwest
In road racing higher rpms help. In drag racing not a big factor but torque is very important. In the 60's and 70's big blocks did not rev like the small blocks but they had the torque. Same is true with the LS3 over the 5.0 can not rev as high but it has more torque.
|
Low end torque is great and all especially when driving around town but it doesn't play that big of a role or have a big advantage in drag racing these modern muscle cars like the Mustang because it's launching at 6k rpm and is in 2nd gear in about a second and then its just nothing but 5k-7500k pulls the rest of the way down the strip. Stock 5.0L's are pulling air with a dead hook on stickies at the track so torque is not a problem with the 5.0L