800 brought up the old debate~~ Interesting~~

I read this from website:

Role of torque:
Torque is what makes your car accelerate. It is what you feel, you can't feel horsepower. While accelerating, your car will accellerate in any gear at a rate that maches your engines torque curve (less increases resistances at higher speeds). Your car accelerates hardest at the peak torque and accelerates less below or above that peak number. Making 200 ft-lbs of torque at 2000 rpm will accelerate at the same rate if you were making 200 ft-lbs of torque at 4000 rpm (in the same gear).

So at 2000 RPM your making: 200 ft-lbs * 2000 RPM / 5254 = 76 HP
At 4000 RPM your making 152 HP.

Now if you can pull at your peak torque for longer, you make more horsepower. Horsepower continutes to rise will after your peak torque is reached, and falls ones the torque curves decreases at a rate faster than the RPMs are increasing.

The role of horsepower:
Even though torque moves the car, horsepower plays a role - Horsepower is a measure of how long your engine is making torque. Now remember that gearing multiplies torque greatly.

So horsepower is how long your car can pull, and torque is how fast your car can get going.

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