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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: what is the horse power? Reply #15 - 08/12/05 at 10:39:16 Found while surfing: Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall; torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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Re: what is the horse power?
Reply #16 - 08/12/05 at 10:53:19

Paladin. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:

Found while surfing:

Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall;
torque is how far you take the wall with you.

pretty good!

I like to think of it this way:

When you are at constant speed, horspower is how far you have the throttle open. A less open throttle means more HP. How quickly you accelerate is basically your torque.

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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: what is the horse power? Reply #17 - 08/12/05 at 11:10:53 vroom1776 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08: When you are at constant speed, horspower is how far you have the throttle open. A less open throttle means more HP. How quickly you accelerate is basically your torque. Somehow that just didn't have the same visual as the wall did.
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