Which is more beneficial, that is if one is more beneficial than the other??? Mostly everyone talks about horsepower gains, just wondering what can you do to add more torque and exactly what is the benefits of more torque.

 

its spelled torque, please fix the title :D

 

haha i mispelled it in the title but not in the subject.....oops!

 

haha i mispelled it in the title but not in the subject.....oops!

 

it happens.

 

thanks for any help i get in advane!!!!

 

7 posts and not 1 piece of good info lol

 

http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/tec...4/article.html

pretty good write up ^

 

summary

"Horsepower is what you read about, torque is what you feel."

 

Comparing the two is incorrect. .since the two cannot in any reasonable way be compared.

HP is a calculation of how tq is used.. to make it simple. So HP is the application of the rotational force the engine creates. They are both equally important. It all depends on the power curve, where the most tq is created on that curve and the application for the engine.


And there are a billion threads on this.

 

torque makes you go, thats what you need to know.

 

okay the work from edmunds.com helped alot in explaining the difference. but how about my 2nd question...what is the best way to add more torque??? since torque is what i want more of to get me going.

 

turbo kit to get a noticeable gain.

 

what we define the difference between off the line power and power through the rpm range.. Torque is that power when you jump on the gas pedal and horsepower is the longevity of that power..

 

TQ is the only force that moves the car. HP is that tq applied at a given RPM.

The reason people say that tq gets you off the line is that an engine with high tq simply has more of it at a lower rpm, meaning you are producing more power at low rpm. A car with lower tq numbers needs to be revved up higher to produce its power.

All you really need to know is that HP = (TQ*RPM)/5252. If you look at that a bit and see what changing the varioius numbers does, you will see how to determine the effects.

Lengthening the stroke (not what you really want to do in our car) or increasing displacement can gain you tq, but typically a stock car with a longer stroke will have a lower redline. A longer stroke means a longer lever arm between the force along the rod and the axis of rotation.

The same engine as ours, only with a shorter stroke, will generally produce less torque, but you can rev it higher since average piston speed is reduced for a given rpm. So you can use the higher redline to make your power, but you are producing less power down low. There are pro's and cons to this.

There is more to being able to rev higher than just moving the power around.. since the airflow characteristics will change. But for the purpose of this, I was just considering that nothing else changed but the stroke length...

 

dahhh i like torque

 

Has anyone tried destroking our engine and overboring (and sleeving) it to keep around 2.4L? This would help aid high rpm applications - along with better hardware in the head.

 

thanks again. but how about my 2nd question...what is the best way to add more torque??? since torque is what i want more of to get me going.

 

theres a lot of ways to add it, it just depends on how much $$ you are willing to spend and most mods add both tq and hp

 

Nitrous, makes alot of torque..