Quote: Originally Posted by
wonderboy 
You can even shift a bit higher than peak power depending on your gearing and what your torque curve looks like.
The ideal way to look at it would be to get a dyno sheet of torque at the wheels by MPH in every gear and then overlay them. Where the graphs intersect, thats basically where you would want to shift.
But I think it would have to be done on a mustang dyno or something other than a dynojet. Dynojets have a difficult time simulation actual road loads with wind resistance etc..
This can also be a fun experiment.. Take two same model cars that are equal in performance. Run them against each other, - one shifting at peak HP, the other at peak torque. and see what happens.
you just made less sense than me, in an earlier post you said the equation for figuring horsepower was something (x) and that all hp and torque curves would cross at 5252, how would overlaying both curves help me figure my shiftpoint? furthermore, every car's shiftpoint is at 5252 according to what your saying.
