88blackgt

but what is important about torque is that a car accelerates along it's torque curve. also without torque there is no such thing as horsepower.

ih8chevy

if this is true than why is it hte 196-98 cobras are so slow, they have a wierd torque band making it essentially after 330 rpms. I can still c this as true b/c if u look at a 5.0 vs. an ls1 the 5.0 w/ slicks and the ls1 w/ slicks, the 5.0 will win through the first 3000 rpms but after that its toast. so i guess this article it true

thanks twisted
it was interesting

CrazyCobraSpeed

torque is in fact more important... if u would listen we wasnt sayin go shift at you max torque... he was sayin torquw plays a bigger part inspeed than hp does and if u have taking any physics classes u would agree.... hell he even told u torque creates hp and his rite... thing about it the longer u can keep your torque curve up the longer u will pull hard... if u hit peak torque at 2k and it drop off a lot right after but u had max hp at 6k do u really think that car would be remotely fast?? hell no it woudnt... it would also be about to create a car with those specs... im not telling u to shift at you max torque but shifting at you max hp isnt a good idea either... u wanna **** at the point were your torque as stop so much its not doing u ne good to take it to high rpms... max since?? its all rambling so it might be unorganized... only reason i even understand if cuz my physics teacher drilled **** like this into my head last year in highschool and actually im glad she did... but yea.... just my .02

Twisted

Yeah, I had been curious about the relationship between torque and hp for a long time. Now I have some idea of how it works.