what exactly is torque

 

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Twisting power.


In terms of car performance...


Imagine a car that has 100 ft. pounds of torque and 160 hp.

That means it has a relatively small engine and requires you to rev it to get power (hp is torque multiplied by revs). Depending on gearing and the weight of the vehicle, it can be quite quick.

Now imagine a car that has 200 ft pounds of torque and 200 hp. Thats your average family car. It doesn't have to rev too much, has good low end push (torque) and decent high end power for passing people.

Now.. imagine a vehicle with 500 foot pounds of torque and 220 hp. Sounds like a diesel truck. It can rip stumps out of the ground with no problem, because it has power immediately and doesnt have to rev. On the other hand, it has no top end, meaning that its going to be quite slow past 45 or 50 mph.

 

any dictionaries near by???

 

Horsepower is how fast you can go and torque is how fast you can get there!

 

The static twisting force produced by an engine. Torque varies with the length of the "arm" at which the twisting force is measured. Torque is a force times the length of the measurement arm: Torque = Force x Torque Arm, where Force is the applied or the generated force and Torque Arm is the length through which that force is applied. Typical torque values are ounce-inches, pound-feet, etc.

To calculate the torque, you just multiply the force by the distance from the center. In the case of the lug nuts, if the wrench is a foot long, and you put 200 pounds of force on it, you are generating 200 pound-feet of torque. If you use a 2-foot wrench, you only need to put 100 pounds of force on it to generate the same torque.

 

exactly what i was gonna say.

 

umm yup. what he said

 

An old saying is torque is what you feel leaving a redlight and horsepower is what you feel after 50mph.

 

click the link. it breaks it down for you

http://www.offroaders.com/info/tech-...wer-torque.htm

 

good read fsttyms! props.

 

np prob!

 

Great job fsttyms1!! I tried to do it without any technical junk but hey, great explanation dude.

 

www.howstuffworks.com

type in torque under auto section

 

nicely put Fsttyms1,

Torque simply is what our TL/TL-S lack or don't have. Torque should be at or close to horsepower of the vehicle and not way below the horsepower. What Acura should have done is made the TL/TL-S with a better torque to horsepower ratio and made it a RWD, instead of FWD, but then again (Honda)Acura, are the same guys that refuse to fix our transmission glitch for 2nd generation TL vehicles....

 

It's tough to really understand. These are two ways to measure power. Torque= Rotating or twisting force at the crank shaft. Horse power= The rate (time) power is developed, less time = more power.