stangy004

horsepower or torque what the difference and what do u want more of

crazy horse

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races.
You want low end torque and top end power. Overall you should have a good balance of each.

Du510

Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall.
Torque is how far you take the wall with you.



horsepower
NOUN: A unit of power in the U.S. Customary System, equal to 745.7 watts or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute.


torque
NOUN: The moment of a force; the measure of a force's tendency to produce torsion and rotation about an axis, equal to the vector product of the radius vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the force and the force vector.

Twister

with torque comes horsepower

blownstanger

^^^^ what they both said

stangy004

r u guys drunk haha

Twister

no, but you must be

Du510

I guess this is about how philosophical gearheads get!

M1ke

horsepower is torque over time. so how fast the torque increases is horsepowers