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Old 02-17-2015, 08:21 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cptsideways View Post
Thats the big flywheel that generates that effect not the low friction stuff.
At first, that's what I thought too, and I agree that the flywheel effect has much to do with it. But with heavy flywheels, engines are usually slow to respond to throttle; this engine is not; it's snappy. All this considering a bit of turbo lag too.

Here is a good tech story explaining it. Ford
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