[Dorchester2]

Originally Posted by kaiser

Firstly you should know what figures you have been quoted. Are these figures on the wheels or figures off the crank.?
There is always a loss through the box and the diff. In the Auto box the losses are higher than through a conventional box.
The car gears down very easily, that means that the torque converter in play at all times and that affects the torque measurements.
It becomes difficult to maintain revs and load, and you need to do that in order to get proper readings.
If these are the results on the wheels I would not complain.

But it is of course not a V8!

Thank you @kaiser for you quick reaction and comprehensive & astute explanation.
They didn't tell me where the results came from.
Had the figures come from the wheels would a projection be made even approximatively to find out the equivalent off the crank?

When initially Rover gave 175 bhp & 177 ftlb, from which did it come?
Don't you think the mystery could be explained because they never were able to use the 5th gear to make their tests?

I'm not at all a petrol head as you may guess.

Thanks to enlighten my knowledge.