From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 19:11:53 PDT
At 7:06 PM -0700 7/3/03, Employee@MilVeh.com wrote:
>OK, maybe I am totally off base on this one, but for
>years I have been advised there was relationship to
>axle length and torque (same for drive shaft length).
>And as I recall it goes something like this, the
>longer the distance from the power source the greater
>the loss of torque. Seems like there was a rule of
>thumb, like X percent of loss in torque per X distance
>of drive shaft and axle length. I.e. the drive shaft,
>axle length affects power and mileage.
I can see a bit of a loss on torque due to bending, but only
initially. I can also see a bit more on inertial loads, but its got
to be small and shouldn't it affect spooling up or down not top speed?
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