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Old 10-17-2007, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by TomB
some of the guys who have been racing for a while say the torque engines are actually quicker than the reving engines (in .21's anyway). i wonder if this is the same with the .12's?

i was told the europeans like a revvy engine, as oposed to the torque type engines, would this be a reason for the change to the XL3 setup?

my old SL3 has such a nice linier power band, that it makes the engine very easy to drive. no sharp peaks in power like other engines i owned, yet it has awesome punch!

I still have the old NS3 in hand but stop runing for quite sometimes. When I try to make comparison between these two engine other then the XL3 is a ported version by max I can't find any thing else different. So that mean the crankshaft would be most slightly the same that they were using on the Max S5. So I can't tell which part of the engine does making it a torgue engine.

Or maybe MAX doesn't sign a new contract with nova for producing the plus 123 MAX version yet.

But one thing for sure is Nova is going to long stroke engine, more torque.
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