Re: Did I read this right? 27 horsepower??

Posted by Steven@AZ on August 23, 2006 at 08:30:42 from (216.67.213.217):

In Reply to: Did I read this right? 27 horsepower?? posted by Mike CA on August 22, 2006 at 21:18:33:

Low horsepower, but high torque. It was explained to me this way one time:

A 350 Chevy that is running good will put out 350 ft-lbs of torque and around 200 horsepower or more. A Farmall M (248 cubes) will put out around 35 horsepower and a little over 300 ft-lbs of torque.

Horsepower comes with higher RPM (the rate the work is done). Torque still gets the job done, and I know people will argue that you need horsepower as well, but look at an 18-wheeler with 400 horsepower pulling 80,000 pounds down the road... BIG torque numbers from that slow-running diesel. Put a 400 horsepower Corvette engine in the big rig and it probably won't even move - not enough low-end torque.

Rambling over, feel free to argue, but I'll stand by wanting a high-torque diesel to do the big time work.

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• Re: Did I read this right? 27 horsepower?? williamf 10:48:33 08/23/06 (0)
• Re: Did I read this right? 27 horsepower?? the tractor vet 08:55:56 08/23/06 (0)

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