Horsepower is horsepower?
If that theory is true (in real circumstances), then a 385hp 6.7L Cummins diesel shouldn't spank a 381hp Toyota Tundra when both are tested 0-60 towing a 5740# boat. But it did. Must be the adva...
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pronstar wrote:Passin Thru wrote:
My CAT had 500 HP, measured at the wheeels, (Cummins mesures at the back of the engine so you lose HP) and 1495 lb of torque with a 15 speed, and would pull 80 K loads through Eisenhower that fast but I had to stop at Mounment for the scales.
I'm sure a Corvette Z06 could do the same...because "horsepower is horsepower" according to the experts :B
I am no "expert", but the Corvette would move much less weight a lot faster, thereby producing an equal amount of "work" accomplished. Which one would get to the top or the mountain quicker? What would be their comparable velocity at the end of a quarter mile? If one lifts one hundred pounds ten feet in a minute, that equates to the same horsepower as lifting fifty pounds twenty feet in one minute. Torque is another and perhaps more important rating for tow vehicles.
