What is torque???

[DTaccords85]

What is torque? How can you feel torque whene your driving?

[GHOST 2.2]

What is torque? How can you feel torque whene your driving?

torque is vtec spelled different.

you can feel it when it goes mmmMMMMMBAAAAH!

[F20A CB7]

YOu can feel tq when your drivin by HITTIN the gas pedal and sendin it thru the RADIATOR

[NAiL05]

YOu can feel tq when your drivin by HITTIN the gas pedal and sendin it thru the RADIATOR

wtf. Torque in simple terms is twisting force (yes there is a longer def but I dont feel like typing it). Google has a lot of explanations and so on.

[DTaccords85]

So does the motor use torque and horse power at the same time. This might be a stupid question but just trying to understand better.

[4thgenaccord]

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutor...que.intro.html

Torque is a measure of how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate.


See the following:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/fpte4.htm


http://vettenet.org/torquehp.html

Hope this helps.

[DTaccords85]

So lets say hypotheitcly speaking a car as 250 ft/lbs of torque and 125 hp. How would id drive good bad what?

[GHOST 2.2]

torque is turning force. Place a lever on the engine's crankshaft and measure the twisting force produced, and you have torque. Note that time is not a factor - torque can be constant over time. Horsepower, on the other hand, is the rate at which the torque is produced.

[GHOST 2.2]

you can a 500hp civic but it wont go anywhere if it cant lift itself up

you can have a 125 hp 4runner with 500 lb of torque can pull big things it'll accelerate like shit.

its like muscle and endurance

muscle = torque
endurance = hp

[DTaccords85]

I here people tell me all the time that the torque on there car is crazy and it pulls like a mother...... and im like how do you feel the torque in your car. Im lost.

[4thgenaccord]

ok, here is an example.

Drive your car down the road, goes along fine. then start going up a hill. it slows down and starts to drag. then shift down to a lower gear it picks up.

[GHOST 2.2]

I here people tell me all the time that the torque on there car is crazy and it pulls like a mother...... and im like how do you feel the torque in your car. Im lost.

go drive a civic dx

and then drive a 350

the one that throws your head back is how you feel torque

[lo-specials]

go drive a civic dx

and then drive a 350

the one that throws your head back is how you feel torque

x2

[cjv998]

Here are some more great links:

http://dmiessler.com/study/horsepower/
http://www.revsearch.com/dynamometer...orsepower.html

Also, that vettenet link above is easily one of the better ones I've found on the subject.

In regards to your question, it's not that simple unfortunately. You need to consider the entire power/torque curve...or at the very least, what RPMs those peak values occur at. The way a car feels can dramatically change based on varying only the RPMs at which peak torque (and therefore power) occur.

To add to the comments, torque is what you feel in a car. Horsepower is a derived unit that is useful in explaining why cars with equal peak torque values can be very different, because it takes RPMs into account (this is what I was talking about above). Read the vettenet link and the dmeissler link I posted, and you should understand these two better.

[DTaccords85]

go drive a civic dx

and then drive a 350

the one that throws your head back is how you feel torque

OK i think im getting it now thanks. Yea i know what you are talking about when you go up a hill and it starts do drag.