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Old Apr 23, 2007 | 01:11 PM
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beat me to it

33,000lb's 1 foot in 1 minute

soemthing to do with what a watt is or horses in mines and that sort of stuff
but it's a given amount of work that can be done
if you had 2 horses you could do twice the mount of work
if you have 4 you could d 4 times the amount of work etc etc
the rate of work is all dependnat on what you want to do, but it could be that, with 4 horses you would be able to move 4 time the wieght that same foot in that one minute so thats the power side of thigns sorted (i hope )

i was always told that power is the speed at which the engine turns whilst torque is the amount of twist it will give at any given engine rpm

i think peole are also forgetting that the bigger the engine, the less revvy it is going to become as you have more and more bits to turn and slow down and friction losses and all that other technical stuff others are better at explaining than me so it's not just the "each pot is 500 cc so yu've got 200 brake from a 2.0 and 300 brake from a 3 litre" the 300 brake from the 3 litre is going to be harder to get out than the 200 brake from the 2 litre is it not as you've got more mass to rotate and different harmonics and all sorts of stuff to complicate things with

years and years ago, 100 bhp/l was almost unthinkable in n/a form but now you've got even cooking cars doing that sort of thing, bmw does it with it's m cars and honda does it with it r types, the fact that there is more mass to turn gives the m engine more torque than the little r type engine

and so on and so forth
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