I sure hope I did the right thing! (Update)
Well, over the weekend the DW and I pulled the trigger on a (new to us) 2012 Ford Certified F-250 CC 4x4 with the 6.2 gas. Traded in my 05 model with the 6.0 PSD. The reasons were just to obvious to i...
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travelnutz wrote:
Turtle n Peeps,
You're going to need to lay off the sauce as you don't have a clew as to what HP vs Torque is and especially when towing/moving heavy loads or rigs. HP has never turned a vehicle drive ever, not even 1 millionth of a revolution as ONLY torque (the force) will do it, period! Only TORQUE turn the drive wheel/wheels and up to the RPM desired. Go peddle your useless jibberish to semi-driver, if you dare, and be prepared for them quickly telling you how dumb you are.
Most truckers have a whopping 450-500 HP but have 1600-2000+ torque and they move their 80,000 lbs just as fast down the same road as your inept same HP with lacking greatly in usable torque gas engine does with a rig weight of only less than 20,000 lbs total. DUH! How can that be or don't you begin to have a clew???
Add in that they do it with their low HP production diesel engine far more efficiently and for many times the miles any production gas engine could or would before it wouldn't even be able to run anymore let alone pull a load. You need to acquire some ed-ja-ma-ka-shun so you don't look so incredibly spaced out with your gearhead mentality blabber in your HP vs Torque post writings!
Back to the forum members how actually do know what they are talking about!
Nutz I expected better from you.
CAT agrees with me even if you don't. As you can see from the CAT chart it only takes about 150 wheel HP for a 34,000 lb rig to get down the road at 65 MPH.
Now that same rig going up a 6% grade needs about 400 HP to maintain the same speed.
That is the reason that your 1600 ft/lb, 300 HP truck engine will be crawling up a grade at 25 MPH with his flashers on in the slow lane.
HP is a timed formula. It tells how much work can be done. This is the reason CAT (look at the link I posted) doesn't even talk about torque.
That is the reason the EB with less torque will smoke an ED up a grade with more torque......because it has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more HP.
In respect to the OP, I'm done here. If you still don't get it Nutz go argue with CAT.
