Engineer the torque path from engine to pavement
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Track: Engineering
Difficulty: advanced
Estimated duration: 420 minutes
Coverage: 7 modules, 32 lessons
Course Overview
For advanced drivers and owner-operators who already understand basic vehicle dynamics and want to make better engineering decisions about engines, tuning, testing, and driveline architecture. The course builds a practical mental model for where power is made, where it is lost, how it is measured, and when powertrain choices matter on track.
Modules
- Map the torque path before changing parts - 4 lessons - Build the complete engine-to-contact-patch model that every later tuning, gearing, and durability decision depends on.
- Read the engine as an air pump - 5 lessons - Connect displacement, cylinder layout, breathing, mixture motion, and forced induction to race-engine output decisions.
- Test before you tune - 5 lessons - Use dynamometer and powertrain-test concepts to decide what evidence is strong enough to justify engine changes.
- Protect output with durability discipline - 4 lessons - Treat reliability as an engineering output, not as an afterthought to horsepower.
- Engineer gearing and driveline architecture - 5 lessons - Understand how clutch, gearbox, differential, and shafts shape what the engine can actually deliver.
- Understand hybrid and electric power paths - 5 lessons - Compare hybrid architectures and regenerative behavior as powertrain engineering systems rather than novelty features.
- Make trackside powertrain decisions with evidence - 4 lessons - Convert engine, driveline, and test knowledge into restrained decisions between sessions and across a season.
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