Originally posted by Recoil
torque alone dont win races
a ****in tractor with 10 000lbs of torque can never beat me 127lbs torqed car.. ok honestly though...
torques dont win real races.. torques with horsepower win drag races.....
vans nowadays are crazy powered.. like the new odyessey vtec 240horsepower van as compared to a 127 horsepowered civic...
this thread can better described as "wow vans can go straight, go straight and go straight some more!"
ahhh just messin with u guys..
Learn the fundementals of stock cars:
You run in 1 gear.
You run LOW rpm in the tight corners, and you run high rpm at the end of the straight.
What gets you off the corner fast? - low end TORQUE.
What gets you down the straight? high end TORQUE. (you may argue with me on that.....but how do you get to high speeds and high RPM's in a single gear without low end torque?)
Road racing: More freedom to use your gears.........BUT you can not run in high RPM's everywhere on the course. Throw hills into the equation. How do you pull out of a sharp curve in low RPM - TORQUE. How do you power up hill on a medium turn - TORQUE.
Street cars: most races are short. It is a contest of pulling your gears: TORQUE. Only a handfull race at really high speeds
An engine can produce all the power it wants to but without producing forward bite, it isn't much help. But you are right about the horsepower as well, most cars producing lots of torque have lots of horsepower. If you can produce more torque than your engine has horsepower, that is a very well built engine....and a fast one as well.