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Old 01-31-2011, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Craig View Post
The term "on cam" has very little to do with a turbo diesel engine and is mostly just confusing to anyone who wasn't working on engines 30 years ago. What you mean to say is "peak torque."

Nope, if I had wanted to say peak torque, or meant to say peak torque, I would have said peak torque.

On cam also applies to every engine with a camshaft, turbo or not, diesel or not.

In the graph above 4000 rpm is well below peak torque, but it is still very much on cam, and will stay that way until the valves bounce or it can't suck enough charge air in any more.
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