Torque on a dyno can be misleading at best. I've compared dyno sheets from the same car, same (to my knowledge) correction factors, same dyno, but newly rebuilt vs old engine. The new engine made more power through every point of the RPM range, and yet the dyno calculated torque for the new engine was lower in some areas compared with the old engine. When HP = lb.ft * RPM / 5252, the amount of constants suggests that at a given RPM point, for more power to be made, more torque has to be made as well. Take the NM readings with a grain of salt.
As for how a NA 2L, and a boosted 2.5L (effective displacement about 4.4L [ 2.5L x 1.75PR]) can make the same power I got NFI. Even with the 2L being hugely efficient and spinning some big RPM, and the 1JZ being fairly lazy and using tame RPM, it still doesn't work out in my mind.
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