>> VW's Touareg comes very close to 500 lb/ft

> This is getting rediculous.  Unless you're discussing windup spring 
> engines,
> lb/ft is not a meaningful unit, and is NOT a unit of torque.  If 
> you're
> going to discuss this stuff, at least get the units right.

Including the spilling? :-)
lb/ft is the 'spring constant' of a spring in its linear mode, so 
indeed quite useful for many spring operated things.

It's also torque per area - a bit hard to see what that's liable to be 
useful for.

BUT I think about 98.3% of the people following this thread would read 
that annotation as "foot-pounds": the reversed order and "/" 
notwithstanding.

Perhaps

        "How about changing the units to ft-lbs, as they should be?"

may be a more efficacious approach.
Maybe not :-).


        Russell


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