Hey i was wondering what a person would want more or what is better HP or torque...never really knew what has the most benefit?
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HP is is basically how fast torque gets its work done. So... if you wanna pull stumps then be more concerned with torque, if you wanna accelerate fast in a car then be more concerned with hp.
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Brother 03 Roush Supercharged lined up with a 69 Camaro they took off bro was winnin at bout 90 then camaro 110 pulled ahead ma bro shifted and pulled ahead again back left tire went out, at 145 bro died doing what he liked to do best
I personally like the description the autoshop teacher at the high school I work at gave me. He said Torque is a measure of work that can be done and HP is a made up number. Actually if you know the Torque your car makes, there is a formula to get the hp at a give rpm.
humm ok i think that i have a better understanding of it now
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"First of all, from a driver's perspective, torque, to use the vernacular, RULES :-). Any given car, in any given gear, will accelerate at a rate that *exactly* matches its torque curve (allowing for increased air and rolling resistance as speeds climb). Another way of saying this is that a car will accelerate hardest at its torque peak in any given gear, and will not accelerate as hard below that peak, or above it. Torque is the only thing that a driver feels, and horsepower is just sort of an esoteric measurement in that context. 300 foot pounds of torque will accelerate you just as hard at 2000 rpm as it would if you were making that torque at 4000 rpm in the same gear, yet, per the formula, the horsepower would be *double* at 4000 rpm. Therefore, horsepower isn't particularly meaningful from a driver's perspective, and the two numbers only get friendly at 5252 rpm, where horsepower and torque always come out the same."
Hp v Torque
