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edit: n/m i'm dumb

it refers to the maximum amount of pulling (horsepower) and twisting power (torque) that your engine in making, and at how many revolutions per minute (RPM) it is making it. metric is a little different and i don't know the coversion BUT basically power=how much energy is being tranferred over a given time period i don't know metric, but in industrial measurement this is enough energy to move 550 pounds one foot in one second torque=twisting force generated by the engine torque is a hell of a lot more complicated, in any language. you need formulas and an understanding of angular velocity and whatall which i don't have, i just know that it's twisting force RPM=revolutions per minute, how fast the engine is turning when the machine recorded the maximum numbers

torque gets you off the line power gets you haulin' ass

hope that was mildly helpful.

The specific numbers seem to indicate that you are maybe looking at something on the small end of "karts" (since the numbers are small and the RPMs high)? See for instance

make engine-building decisions) and the driving (when to use which gears based on speed and on what you're going to do next) aspects of how to win, both of which are the subject of chapters if not books, and on which my understanding is too inexpert to do more than refer you to them...

Cheers,

--Joe "Executive summary: horsepower boils coolant; torque snaps U- joints" Chew

mr_mushroom wrote in news:mr snipped-for-privacy@no-mx.nodomain.com:

JEEESH MR. SHROOM! poor ole' jimmy carters 3rd biggest legacy builder (1st = killer rabbit, 2nd = killer inflation) didnt catch on? just bustin' ur chops there, but if we had leaders that really pursued what they wanted we now would have vague memories of inch, foot, and yard. no different than our current leader (?) dropping social security reform and ILLEGAL immigration back in the water cause it was too hot to handle.........pretty good description of HP/torque you gave tho. my simple explanation is HP is what you read, torque is what you feel................kjun

sorry. i teach kids every single day and catch myself way overexplaining sometimes. hazard of the trade, i guess.