Maybe that is why the Hondas, Toyotas, and other such Asian Rice Cookers
uses the dragster gears and high first three gears, since there is no TQ to
speak of.
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Steven St.Laurent
Test Engineer
Test Branch, GSD, MCTSSA
MARCORSYSCOM, USMC
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-----Original Message-----
From: BadDakota [mailto:bad93dakota@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:17 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Torque VS Horse power
The terms horsepower and torque can be confusing at
times. Hot Rod Magazine, took twenty pages to explain
torque vs. HP. Here's a paraphrase of what they said.
Simply defined, horsepower is the rate of doing work
over a given amount of time.
According to experts from SAE, one horsepower (1 HP)
equals 550 ft-lb. per second or
33,000 ft-lb. per minute. Another familiar formula is
the one which states RPM x Torque/ 5252 = horsepower
Torque is the measurement of the strength of the
rotational movement and determines how fast a car,
boat, or airplane accelerates up to a required speed.
Basically, Torque is the seat of the pants
feeling....big blocks are know for massive amounts of
it.
Tom
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