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Old 01-30-2009, 02:37 PM   #116 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TestDrive View Post
The Average map's vertical scale is BMEP but I don't know how that relates to newton meters.
My understanding is quite incomplete, but I believe that the two are related, but not identical. BMEP is "Brake Mean Effective Pressure", I think, and is a measurement of the pressures inside the cylinder. More cylinder pressure typically means more torque from a given motor under a given set of operating conditions, but I think there are a bunch of other factors that also have some sort of influence on the one figure or the other.

So a direct scale overlay is probably "close enough" for our purposes, even though it may be technically inaccurate.

-soD
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