Talk:BMW M12
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Who cares?
This engine was the first turbo to win a F1 world championship. The article barely mentions this fact, skipping several years of F1 racing between BMW thinking about entering F1 in the late 1970s, and 1986. -- Matthead Discuß 07:11, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- Agreed! This comes up on some of the car pages too, such as the Porsche 917 and the Sauber C9 and Mercedes-Benz C11 where the history of the car seems secondary to its top speed. Flanker235 (talk) 04:59, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Power claims
The power claims in this article need to be sourced. Furthermore, the claim that anything over 1,000 horsepower is not accurately measurable is not true. Horsepower is not measured. Torque is measured and power is calculated. Many things need to be known: fuel flow, boost pressure, etc. and this is where the calculations are made. But there's no point making power claims without sourcing them and then saying such claims are not accurate. Check this page:
http://www.epi-eng.com/piston_engine_technology/engine_technology_contents.htm
As long as there are accurate figures for RPM, torque, etc., power can be calculated. We should not be reliant on guesses. That brings speculation into it and we all know where that ends. Flanker235 (talk) 04:57, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
- power = torque * RPM .... what else is needed? I don't see where "fuel flow, boost pressure, etc" comes into it...