Wavehogger

You beat me to the punch, and well said. In fact they could have checked that torque if they specifically locked into a gear and then loaded it up.

But typically it really isn't a big deal how much Tq/Hp are down between 1700-2500. And like he said most of the time they are spinning the engine in the appropriate gear and it doesn't even come online until higher RPM's, and if it does down low there is lag which there wouldn't be if the engine was in a gear cruising up a hill with a lot of resistance on the motor.

Heck, I was amazed this weekend that I could drive on some country roads that had a good 4%+ pitch and it never came out of 6th gear and was at about 1800rpm @40-50mph. And it wasn't lugging at all, just smoothly crusin along. If it didn't have decent torque down that low it would have never made the grade that easy without downshifting. And i'd never had this happen in any other car/truck i've owned on the same roads.

borjeb

I can't see you being in 6th at 50 at 1800rpm unless the converter wasn't locked or maybe it was in 5th. I'm doing 80 by the time I get to 1800. Weird

Wavehogger

I have 3.73's and that's what it was running and I had the gear selector set so I could see what gear I was in. It changed by 100-200 revs depending on the speed but it was roughly 40-50 mph and the rpm's were around 1500-1800. I don't think it's locked up either because I know what you're saying. I'm running about 2100 at 80mph.