Dave1682
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Registered: 18th Jul 04
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Ok peeps, I'm gonna ask a question that most of you will know the answer to. It's something that I've never really been fussed about and so have never read anything about it and it is: torque.
My understanding of torque is - more torque, more force and therefore more pull through the gears - is this correct?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Torque is a rotational force. The more torque you have, the faster your car can accelerate. To get more torque you need more BHP.
Look on www.wikipedia.org for a good description.
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bradfincham
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Registered: 20th Sep 02
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Thats correct ed
torque is rotational force - pulling power, its good to have a high torque figure but you need a good bhp figure to acheive that torque
Hope that helps!
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AfterShock
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Learn something new everyday ^_^
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TNM
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You could also think of it as a punch.
BHP is how much it can punch and Torque is how fast it can deliver the punches.
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Corsa E-Tec
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Registered: 4th Feb 04
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surley you can have more torque than bhp, so there for not needing more bhp than torque to go faster 
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Greasemonkey
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More BHP will give you higher top speeds, more tourqe means you can reach this quicker, tourqe is a by product of BHP and vice versa, N/A Petrol engines gererally have a lower tourqe figure compared to its BHP figure but turboed engines can usually have near identical figures or a much higher tourqe figure to BHP.
Why this is im not 100% sure 
[Edited on 10-01-2006 by Greasemonkey]
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broster
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think of it this way:
"torque turns the wheels, bhp sells the cars"
basically if you combin what people say you get the answer.
i like to think of it like this:
3 cars;
1) 100bhp 50lbft
2) 50bhp 100lbft
3) 100bhp 100lbft
if they had a race the results will be:
car 3
car 1
car 2
then put them up a steep steep hill and the results will be:
car 3
car 2
car 1
hope that helps....
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