MitsuStyle - View Single Post - Good article on torque, horsepower, and gearing

**Tachyon** · 03-10-2010

The thing most people fail to realize is it's about average wheel thrust after factoring in TQ multipliers (such as gearing, or wheel size) , rather than average engine HP or TQ.

This is one of the better articles I've found over the years that explains the basic concepts:

http://craig.backfire.ca/pages/autos/horsepower

Dyno graphs can be very deceiving because they don't show you the actual wheel force curves for each gear.

03-10-2010	#8
Tachyon Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Prior Lake Drives: Icarus Posts: 1,375	Re: Good article on torque, horsepower, and gearing The thing most people fail to realize is it's about average wheel thrust after factoring in TQ multipliers (such as gearing, or wheel size) , rather than average engine HP or TQ. This is one of the better articles I've found over the years that explains the basic concepts: http://craig.backfire.ca/pages/autos/horsepower Dyno graphs can be very deceiving because they don't show you the actual wheel force curves for each gear. __________________ "The moment money becomes your motivation, you're immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will" -Sebastian Vettel Last edited by Tachyon; 03-10-2010 at 12:34 PM..