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Old 09-15-2009, 11:16 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
A g-tech uses accelerometers to measure torque and therefore horsepower. I'm not sure if that is exactly what you are looking for, but its a start.
I don't believe this would work for our purposes. An accelerometer is simply going to read zero if you're cruising along at 60, and it'll read zero as you press a little harder on the throttle to make up for rolling down the windows. If the G-Tech works like I expect it does, you have to do 0-60 sprints before it tells you how much HP+Torque it took to accelerate that fast.
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