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Originally Posted by Happy
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?
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Yep - the stress (force) is provided by the motor. Whether the vehicle accelerates quickly or slowly doesn't matter. The force applied to the drivetrain is the same.
Takeaway: if you took your motor/tranny and swapped it into, say, an E46 chassis, the transmission would be under the same amount of stress, but the vehicle would accelerate a lot faster.