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Norbie Forums Junkie Location: Brisbane Registered: May 2002	Re: More Torque or more Horses ? Fri, 13 September 2002 00:31 It's a common misconception that low-rpm acceleration is "torque", while high-rpm acceleration is "power". It's not as simple as that though! The fact is that torque and power are very closely related. Torque is the twisting force acting on the driving wheels which causes the car to accelerate (remember high-school physics - f=ma, or force = mass x acceleration). Power is the rate at which torque can be applied. For example, with suitable gearing a Datsun 120Y can put 1000nm of torque to the ground. This sounds impressive until you look at the rate that torque is being applied - the car will probably have a max speed of 2km/h! If you want to put that sort of torque to the ground at while travelling at 100km/h, you're going to need lots of power to do it. Hope that makes it a little bit clearer... this is a bit of a confusing topic. [Updated on: Fri, 13 September 2002 00:33] [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	More Torque or more Horses ?	Les	Thu, 12 September 2002 23:15
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	TurboRG	Thu, 12 September 2002 23:49
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	E30-323ti	Fri, 13 September 2002 00:16
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Norbie	Fri, 13 September 2002 00:31
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	GIN51E	Fri, 13 September 2002 01:13
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Corvid	Fri, 13 September 2002 01:26
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	kassma	Fri, 13 September 2002 02:33
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Les	Fri, 13 September 2002 04:15
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Stefan	Fri, 13 September 2002 05:12
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Norbie	Fri, 13 September 2002 06:03
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Stefan	Sat, 14 September 2002 13:49
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Stefan	Fri, 13 September 2002 05:09
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Norbie	Fri, 13 September 2002 06:01
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Seadog	Fri, 13 September 2002 06:10
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	justcallmefrank	Fri, 13 September 2002 06:52
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Blown86	Fri, 13 September 2002 18:37
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	mrshin	Sat, 14 September 2002 12:09
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	mrshin	Sat, 14 September 2002 12:11
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	mrshin	Sat, 14 September 2002 12:14
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Norbie	Sat, 14 September 2002 23:40
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	5KinKP60	Sun, 15 September 2002 00:45
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	GIN51E	Sun, 15 September 2002 08:36
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Fattony	Sun, 15 September 2002 02:28
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	Jonny2TG	Sun, 15 September 2002 07:41
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	celicamad85	Sun, 15 September 2002 12:03
	Re: More Torque or more Horses ?	mattc	Tue, 17 September 2002 01:56

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