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Originally Posted by XutvJet
Torque is a measure of power.
HP is a measure to do work over time.
Peak torque is meaningless without the HP calculation Torque will always fall after 5252rpms. There's no way around it.
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Torque is dimensionally equivalent to energy (Nm are equivalent to J in the SI system), power is the rate of energy change, i.e. J/s or kW.
There are actually quite a few high revving engines (non in the current BMW line up I know of) that have peak torque above 5252 RPM. In my Caterham peak torque of 150lbft is at 6300RPM and peak power of 210bhp is at 7600RPM.