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That .585 actually want to be about 10.75, and because of the design of that cam, it still may have a dip.
A Wood 8, will fill that in, at 10.7 cr, as would a couple other cams.
Rhineharts and 585. Both known to not help bottom end.
The other thing you got going is how the run was performed. RPM was held in place by brake. Throttle held WO and brake was released. This does cause the tq to go straight up and then it will settle a bit. Since it's a cable operated slide on the mik. This isn't helping. It helps the low end of the graph to hold the slide open enough to hit 100kpa and gradually open slide as RPM goes up keeping above 100kpa the whole time. Same concept of finding more low end by restricting the blade open acceleration on a TBW.
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