Thread: Drive line loss of HP?
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Old May 6th, 2008, 11:40 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by The Former PFR View Post
The force on the gear faces increases with torque. There are three losses that I can think of, two of which remain constant. You have the friction between gear faces and bearing losses (probably the biggest factor), the windage losses, and the inertial losses. So basically one changes and the other two stay the same. It would be interesting to see what those percentages are.
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I am all about microniting your gear sets. Lube wise, I like Amsoil or Redline.
Me too..been doing that for years..def. helps. We use Redline.
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