Torque through driveline losses

pishta said

why are we doing a torque per axle when a SG will pretty much lock the rear end to a 1:1 per side? what would happen if you ran a spool? would the dyno give you different results?

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My question was: What does this torque number that the OP posted mean and/or how is it presented? Is it reduced to a per wheel number or is it a whole axle number? Just trying the make sense of his numbers, and, as above, the torque number does not compute as a number at the axle.

If traction & load & any slippage is equal on both sides, the torque will split 50-50 between the 2 wheels.... sure-grip, open, or spool..... For a chassis dyno with a drum turned by both wheels, one would assume the car chained/strapped down so that both wheels are turning the drum with littler or no slippage. If one is doing a single wheel dyno (hub dyno), with something like a spool or locker to keep the torque going to the loaded wheel, then the whole torque goes to the one wheel with the dyno.