367 vs 410 Engines Masters
It only looks that way because the 410 power band is better or the same everywhere until above 6000
What you seem to not realize is the 367 also has a powerband that starts and finishes at a higher rpm than the 410.
You can take any power curve subtract 20 hp from itself at each rpm then plot the two curves on the same graph. If you keep sliding the lower hp curve to the left they will eventually lay over the top of each other.
That not the same thing, yes if you took that graph and move it left (deeper gears) you might get some of the lower rpms to line up (why deeper gears will pull harder), but all the meat of the hp curve is gone (top parts) gonna be down 20 hp and you will run out rpm sooner cause peak rpm is still the same but now you have deeper gears and get there sooner.
Gears are to get you into the powerband but there's got to be a powerband to get to, you can over gear it so you get to the power sooner but an engine doesn't have the power and rpm your just gonna run out sooner, is why you can't just keep adding gear to the 410 for more performance cause sooner or later you'll be revving way above it's power curve, why can you add a little more to 367 cause it operates at a higher rpm. It's got a similar hp curve as the 410 but moved up (to the Right) a few hundred rpm.
Because in the case of these 2 motors it really isn't a thing. They peak close to the same rpm.
I've never said the 367 is 1000's of rpms higher, it's only a few hundred but higher is higher still needs a slightly different setup than the 410.
You need a set of hp curves that cross over more in the middle. Not at the very end of the curve.
Not true, based on what ?
To do that with this curve you would have to draw a tiny box around the upper right end of the curve and disregard everything else that is outside that box. That's why this becomes a drag racing conversation.
How else do you compare the performance potential, even you never drag race, if doing full throttle runs anywhere this convo generally holds.
Where else does that little box in the upper right corner become the main priority.
It not about the little part of the curve where 367 does better, never said it was, how many times have I said "Stall to Shift Points" which are mainly under that part of the curve.