just thought id put up a little something i read in a magazine to see what your thoughts are.
This was a quote from the famous carol shelby in the 1960's, and now is usually used by diesel owners as a way to make their car sound faster than it really is.
Torque is nice, makes for a more fun car to drive, and makes it easier to drive fast, but BHP is still the ultimate performance tool. If the myth where true, low torque cars like type-r's and F1 racers wouldnt be fast.
Lack of torque overall means you need a lot more effort and closely spaced gears to keep the cars performance on the boil. But providing that possible,"BHP wins races,torque just makes it easier"
now ive spoke to alot of people alot more clever than me, who drive home built cars that are very quick and nearly all of them say BHP is where its at, so why do people rant on about torque??
i mean i know lads with 300ft/lb of torque dervs and i leave them for dead and i know for sure i aint pushing 300ft/lb of torque.
This was a quote from the famous carol shelby in the 1960's, and now is usually used by diesel owners as a way to make their car sound faster than it really is.
Torque is nice, makes for a more fun car to drive, and makes it easier to drive fast, but BHP is still the ultimate performance tool. If the myth where true, low torque cars like type-r's and F1 racers wouldnt be fast.
Lack of torque overall means you need a lot more effort and closely spaced gears to keep the cars performance on the boil. But providing that possible,"BHP wins races,torque just makes it easier"
now ive spoke to alot of people alot more clever than me, who drive home built cars that are very quick and nearly all of them say BHP is where its at, so why do people rant on about torque??
i mean i know lads with 300ft/lb of torque dervs and i leave them for dead and i know for sure i aint pushing 300ft/lb of torque.