that is configured to at least temporarily interface with the data collection device 152 moreover in some embodiments the data collection device 152 may along with the processor 154 comprise a single machine device and or system the memory 158 stores one or more programs 164 that at least facilitates one or more processes for determining engine torque values such as the engine torque prediction process 200 depicted in fig2 and 3 and described further below in connection therewith and or facilitating operation of the vehicle health monitoring system 150 and or various components thereof such as those described above the memory 158 can be any type of suitable memory this would include the various types of dynamic random access memory dram such as sdram the various types of static ram sram and the various types of non volatile memory prom eprom and flash it should be understood that the memory 158 may be a single type of memory component or it may be composed of many different types of memory components the memory 158 also preferably stores various look up tables 156 for use in the engine torque determination for use in connection with corrected variables as described in greater detail further below in connection with fig2 and 3 in addition the memory 158 and the processor 154 may be distributed across several different computers that collectively comprise the vehicle health monitoring system 150 for example a portion of the memory 158 may reside on a computer within a particular apparatus.