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Originally Posted by KingMarineM16a4
Umm... Who is going to school to be an automotive technician? Oh... That's me. What are you one of his followers?
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Well, it's not like I'm TOTALLY unqualified... I do have a degree in Mechanical Engineering
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Originally Posted by SternoBoy
Please don't take offense but you might want to study a little harder. Torque is not power. it is not a mesurement of "engine power". Torque is force. Force and power are different.
A dictionary definition:
something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- Mike
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BTW, SternoBoy... I think we are MUCH closer to being on the same page than we might think. I think when VetteNet guy says that acceleration is maximized at peak Torque... I think he really means "peak APPLIED Torque", but it can EASILY be misunderstood to mean "peak ENGINE torque".
To connect that with my explanations, Max ENGINE Horsepower is the point at which the engine has maximized the POTENTIAL for APPLIED Torque.
Because of this, we can say that, "Given equal gearing (as well as weight, aero, etc), the car with the greater HORSEPOWER at any given moment will be the faster of the two cars." Just because a car has 400 ft*lb of torque doesn't necessarily mean it has a greater POTENTIAL for APPLIED Torque than a car with, say 200 ft*lb of torque, as long as the second car is running at sufficiently high RPM (and therefore, making more horsepower), it can be geared to take advantage of that Horsepower, which can be also known as "the POTENTIAL to produce APPLIED Torque".
I'm kinda thinking out loud here, Sterno... working through it in my head. Any comments?