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Old Jan 10, 2004 | 12:18 PM
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torque & horsepower?
what is different between torque and horsepower? tor is acceleration ??hor is topspeed????
how to increase the acceleration?? how about cold air intake?
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Old Jan 10, 2004 | 06:49 PM
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Torque x rpm / 5252 = horsepower. Torque measures the twisting force, horsepower measures the amount of work.
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Old Jan 10, 2004 | 07:07 PM
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http://auto.howstuffworks.com/horsepower.htm
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Old Jan 11, 2004 | 11:55 PM
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http://vettenet.org/torquehp.html Kind of an old article but explains it pretty clearly.
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Old Feb 24, 2004 | 07:24 PM
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Torqu is your accelaration and horsepower is what helps you keep it at that, I think correct me if I'm wrong.
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Old Feb 24, 2004 | 07:28 PM
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high voltage i think he got his answer a month and a half ago
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Old Feb 27, 2004 | 02:44 PM
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Never hurts to reinforce the message though!
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Old Mar 3, 2004 | 03:46 PM
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Thank you west, see someone gets the purpose of posting old news.
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Old Mar 4, 2004 | 06:39 PM
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There was also that article in SSC explaining the difference, gotta love those dave coleman write ups.
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