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Originally Posted by Bdc101
With a manual transmission, it doesn't care of the weight of the vehicle. Only the torque produced by the engine matters. The transmission encounters the same stresses when transmitting X lbft of torque, whether the car is 1,000lbs or 8,000lbs. (Except when it comes to overheating, but that is generally not how manual transmissions break.)
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So if I am understanding you correctly, you are saying the applied stress on a drivetrain to move a vehicle, is the same at 8000lbs, as it is for 1000lbs?