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Originally Posted by bossman

Figured I'd add some more info to this..

Your TQ peak will come when your engine is operating at maximum VE (Volumetric Efficency).VE is how much air and fuel is burned in the combustion chamber Vs. Combustion chamber size i.e 2 liters in our case.Hondas,with their excellant head design and cam events actually have a VE above 100% at TQ peak proving that high redlines are NOT a bad thing.Horsepower being a mathematical formula of Tq @ X RPM is just another way of equating how well your engine is breathing at higher RPM's.If you had an enginethat made the same TQ at every RPM from 0-10,000 then your HP would climb in a diagonal incline proportional to RPM.As to what is more important peak TQ @ high RPM Vs. peak TQ @ median RPM that is another thread all by itself.