There is no such thing as a torque motor. Any engine that has torque has horsepower. Any engine that produces 300 lbs.-ft. of torque at 3000 rpm has 171 hp at that engine speed.Anyengine—long stroke, ...

We’ve got two identical cars, one makes 1000 hp and 500 lb-ft, the other 500 hp and 1000 lb-ft. The question is: who wins in a quarter mile? Horsepower or torque? That’s what we’re figuring out today, ...

The TSX shown above isn't much peakier than the Mustang, but I'd probably shift it more in real driving conditions -- very low rpm for cruising and normal driving and very high rpm for any sort of ...

In the middle of the muscle-car horsepower wars, the 1970 Buick GS Stage 1 quietly rewrote the rulebook by proving that raw ...

Frankly, you'd think this subject would have been exhausted by now. After all, how much "borderless education" can you absorb about such common and oft-explained engine functions as getting rid of ...

As the axiom goes, building horsepower is just a matter of pushing more air through an engine. While true enough on the surface, it doesn’t take into account the different ways in which that power can ...

Anytime force—either a push or a pull-is applied to an object and an opposite reaction takes place, work happens. For example, when meathead's El Camino breaks down and he pushes it home, work occurs.

You almost certainly know the horsepower rating or displacement of your boat’s engine. But some marine-engine manufacturers have begun marketing torque over horsepower. In a break from standard ...