Man we are built different! I must watch to not stub toe!You can hold up wet towels? When I get up in the morning I have to be careful not to step on my balls. I hate you.
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Mighty Mouse
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Don't like to brag but I'm hung like a baby...10 lbs 4 oz.
I didn’t say that. The racer may have shifted into 2nd at about 6700 rpm or he might have hit 60 in first below 6700 rpm.
Just to help out with this discussion.... horsepower doesn't exist, there is no such actual thing.
Well - except for horses.
Torque is a measurable twisting force created by the engine. Horsepower is just a calculated figure contrived by (I think) James Watt to "compare"different engines.
That should add to the confusion.......
Well - except for horses.
Torque is a measurable twisting force created by the engine. Horsepower is just a calculated figure contrived by (I think) James Watt to "compare"different engines.
That should add to the confusion.......
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OK, my point was shifting at PEAK TORQUE 4K RPMS will NOT give fastest run. I don't get it.
Of course not. I think we all know what we’re talking about here. We just don’t know how to say it.
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Horsepower is arrived at by multiplying torque by RPM.
That's why the horsepower curve starts out lower than the torque and, as RPM increases, it rises above torque.
That's why the horsepower curve starts out lower than the torque and, as RPM increases, it rises above torque.
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Git you a Carpenter kit, I hit the rev limiter at 85 or 90 in first gear. 
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Hi again all,
If you want to see a demonstration of torque, check out this video.
That is a 150 Hp Case steam engine that was built new in 2018. It came to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion the next year. Not only was I there, I was the person running the Prony Brake (dyno). That is my voice you hear calling out numbers. We got 4990 Ft-lb of torque at about 170 Hp.
Later,
Jerry C
If you want to see a demonstration of torque, check out this video.
That is a 150 Hp Case steam engine that was built new in 2018. It came to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion the next year. Not only was I there, I was the person running the Prony Brake (dyno). That is my voice you hear calling out numbers. We got 4990 Ft-lb of torque at about 170 Hp.
Later,
Jerry C
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