Actually, as told me by a very serious and dedicated mechanical enginnering
type, like me, it changed in 1972, or thereabouts. Academia started the
"new" stuff to reflect what you say. I agree with it but it's just real hard
for old hard heads to make the change. 1972, are you joshing me?

Another thing I have difficulty with is pounds/foot instead of foot/pounds.
I came from the 409 Chevy and 429 Boss and super Cobra Jet era. Anyone else
that old having bought, built, or otherwise used "real" muscle in their cars
or boats. ft./lbs. of torque got you off the line as acceleration is a
function of torque unlike all these little high revin' torqueless high horse
power motors of today claiming high speed is a function of RPM without
benefit of fast acceleration.

I do love the smell of burned nitro in the morning,

MoonMan

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