OK, how do I say this without it coming out wrong? Hmmm....
Without a doubt those are great power curves, but at the same time they are as they should be. If you start with the basic design of the NSX engine, build the bottom end to handle power, select the right compressor and plumb it cleanly, then control fuel and timing correctly, this is what you should get. I'm not saying that's easy, because the devil really is in the details, but blow hard enough on an engine, especially an NSX engine, and you get big power. (We all remember Larry Garcia, and look at what people get out of their Supras, Civics, etc.) The basic principals are long established, and the trick is applying them to a given engine, finding and dealing with any weak links and surprises along the way.
So I too applaud Gerry (loudly) because he is one of the few to step up and apply his experience to the NSX and fine tuning it to limits. No simple task for sure. But what I'm saying is what I've said all along, which is that this type of torque curve is what you should expect from a properly designed turbo NSX engine. Whether running modest boost levels like the Bell TT or higher levels like Gerry, David and Factor X, the torque curve should be very strong and therefore deliver massive area under the power curve relative to the peak. As I've said more than once, I think NSX engines are ideally suited to turbo charging because stock they inherently have a comparatively low but extremely broad power band. By contrast, most SCs, and especially centrifugal ones, are better suited to a large displacement low-reving engine that already has enough grunt torque at the low end but need the top end beefed up and extended.
Will we someday see an SC NSX come close to this? Perhaps, but not without lot's more R&D and expense, and possibly more weight and parasitic losses than the current ones. There's always someone who will if they can, but that doesn't make it the choice of the masses.
Anyway, what you see in those charts is exactly what I expect and why I've always been a tubo guy.
Sorry for the lengthy post.
