I need someone to explain to me..?

Question

whats Torque? my friend tried to explain it to me but for some reason he cant explain a thing clearly. So im really confused, what is it? how does it effect my vehicle? is it good to have alot? if so, how do i increase it?

Answer 1

Torque is the ability to do work. It is useful in towing and acceleration. It is good to have a lot if you need to tow or haul.

Answer 2

Torque is really hard to explain - and understand! I think this is because it is so hard to visualize. Basically, it's a type of force; torque acts to *rotate* an object. It is measured in units of weight-distance - in other words, how much weight moved how far. Torque is the force you apply to a wrench to turn a bolt or a nut (think foot-lbs). It is also the force that causes the crankshaft to rotate in an engine.

Engine torque is probably what you're talking about. If you have ever revved a car's engine and felt the car kind of lift up and turn a little (as if it was trying to roll a bit) - that's torque - or the chassis' reaction to torque. Torque is not the same thing as horsepower; horsepower is a measurement of how much work the engine can do in a certain amount of time.

Horsepower is a lot easier to talk about, right? - but you have to have an engine creating torque first before you can have horsepower. Some will tell you that they are two separate things - but that's not so - they are related to each other.

Increasing torque is a BIG subject... and it would depend on what kind of engine you have to start out with. To get REALLY general ... a big limitation on torque is the air going in to your engine. But it is very complicated. And as for being able to use torque, you will have to think about how your car is geared, and whether you want to make more torque at low rpm (as in for towing) or at high rpm (for higher speeds). There's a lot to it and it's a very interesting subject!

Here's an article you might like to read: http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/horsepower_vs_torque/index.html

Have fun!

Answer 3

Plain and simple, torque is rotating or twisting motion. All engines, regardless of whether they're gas, diesel, steam or what have you make torque, not horsepower. Hook an engine up to a dynamometer and the dyno measures torque, not horsepower. How do you get horsepower? Take the torque (measured in foot pounds), multiply that by the engine rpm at that particular torque reading and divide by 5252 and you get horsepower. t X rpm/5252=hp Know the horsepower but want the torque figure? hp X 5252/rpm=t The torque peak is simply the point at which the engine produces the most power (torque) with the fewest rpms which just happens to also be the most fuel effecient rpm for the power produced. Torque peaks often tend to be in the middle of the rpm range while the horsepower peak is at the high end of the rpm range.

When someone says truck engines are designed for torque, what they mean is that a truck engine is designed for more low rpm power which means there will be less high rpm power. Engines with the torque peak at low rpm are called luggers or torquey while an engine with the torque peak at high rpms are refered to as revers. Revers are great for the drag strip but for ordinary use and ease of driving, torquey engines are the best. Compare a 1400cc Ninja to a Harley of comparable engine displacement and the Ninja is the rever and the Harley the torquer. The Harley definately doesn't have the high rpm get up and go like the Ninja but accellerate from 30 mph in high gear and the Harley will leave the Ninja in the dust and get better gas mileage at the same time. That's the difference.

Answer 4

Torque the amount of force used to turn something, i.e. the wheels of a vehicle. The higher the torque rating, the stronger a vehicle will pull. Torque does nothing for acceleration. Horsepower does.

Answer 5

it's what turns your wheels [in a truck the more torque you have the more whight you can pull] you increase it by increasing hourse power, tranny, and the difrentials in your axle