Tell me about it. The point of this thread was never to argue, just make some very interesting observations.

 

I like to think of the I6 as a gas powered Diesel engine.

-Jon

 

I love all this info but what is importent is the 300 is the best engine that Ford has ever bilt

 

I whole-heartedly agree.

-David

 

I'm still getting used to being able to start off, going uphill and only have to barely push the gas off idle. It has roughly the same torque rating as my v8 Cherokee, but this old truck gets out of it's own way a lot quicker and takes hills much better. The only time I have to downshift is to slow down, rarely ever because the motor is bogging too much under load. And if I floor it, it typically revs failry quickly to around 2500, and really doesn't want to go much higher, you actually seem to lose power(now I know you do) past that.

 

Whew, it looks like I missed a good one!

I think that the torque and hp curves got flipped myself.

An inertia dyno measures torque and calculates HP. Without an RPM reading it can't calculate HP either way.



I think the 300 is a prime example of an engine that wouldn't sell today because on paper it looks like a dog. People are so hung up on HP levels that they don't bother to look at torque curves because half of them don't understand what the difference is.

In reality if people understood that most people don't want to rev to 3000+ all the time, they could live just fine with less HP and have the torque down where it's used.

Now personally I really enjoy when I'm towing and my 302 has to bang down to second gear to make it up a grade.

 

Screamin' demon 302

 

Horsepower is the rate of doing work, and that is what a dynojet measures. It calculates torque based off of that.

 

thanks for the good thread Nathan Plemons I under stand what you are getting at and I have really enjoyed reading all of this. I am sure we will get some other dyno charts posted here for the 300

 

Force = mass x acceleration

That is what the dyno measures, and since the mass of the drum is known it is calculated.