amplifying, creating, same shit - you're mincing words. my point is, it doesn't matter what the torque output of your engine is, you can make as much torque as you want with shorter gearing. An electric motor with 1/1000th of a ft pound can create 10,000,000 foot pounds with a big enough gear reduction. If torque was all that mattered you could put that in any car and go super fast, right?
ultimately the most important thing is torque, at the wheels, at a certain speed. Horsepower is a nice way to summarize this.
yeah, because the same torque at a higher rpm is more power.
I've heard a million variations on this. Its some good ole' boy hearsay, there's no truth to that whatsoever. torque does all the work. F=ma, its that simple. power at the engine represents your ability to create torque at the wheels at a vehicle speed. more power means more torque at higher speed.
you probably have a short first gear, short rear end, good tires, making lots of torque at the wheels in the lower gears. but at the end of the day 226hp is kind of low and you cant make enough torque at the wheels at high speed to get a good trap.
ps. im drunk but most of this shit i think is still true. if its noit ill fix it tomorrow.