Re: [DML] Horsepower vs Torque

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes -- laugh, laugh, roll eyes, roll eyes.

Remember: this thread started Re: damaging a Renault transmission. My
contention, then and now, is a high rev'ing turbocharged small
displacement engine does not produce very much torque. It's a
mathematical certainty. I'm less impressed with 20 some odd little
splines that can survive 200 Ft Lbs than I am with 10 big ones that
can survive more than 400.

That's what killed Darryl Tinnerstet's input shaft (a stock 350 is
"only" rated 185 Net HP, but at 3,000 RPM that translates into 330 Ft
Lbs of Torque).

I do have a spare high compression Ford 460 you might be able to
shoehorn back there...

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> Wow..  Can I put one of those in my DeLorean??   What
> would the 0-60, and 1/4 mile times be?  
> 
> :)
> 
> --- content22207 <brobertson@xxxx> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > I like to raise uninitiated eyebrows with the
> > locomotives my employer
> > used for many decades (electric traction motors I
> > know, but the shock
> > value is the same). 600 max HP. Doesn't sound like
> > much, does it? But
> > they produced that at 700 RPM's. In other words,
> > they exerted more
> > than 4,500 Ft Lbs of Torque. That generates more
> > than enough
> > electricity to pull 5 1/4 *MILLION* lbs of freight.
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
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