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Torque Doesn't Matter - Horsepower vs Torque!

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Torque doesn’t matter, it’s all about horsepower. Say you have a car with 100 horsepower, but only 1 lb-ft of torque. Then take that same car, but now it has only one horsepower, but 1 BILLION pound-feet of torque. That sounds exciting, but once you learn that horsepower is the rate of doing work, in other words, how quickly you can move something from point A to point B, i.e., how fast a car is, you’ll realize the torque number becomes irrelevant. It’s like putting all your weight on a breaker-bar, lots of torque, but if the wrench doesn’t move, you’ve accomplished nothing - in other words...