The automotive industry has a language all on its own, including a wide range of acronyms representing a likewise wide range of technical characterizations and features. In the case of “RPM”, the letters mean “revolutions per minute” and represents the amount of times an engine’s crank-shaft fully rotates every sixty seconds, usually presented in a…
Torque is the twisting force that talks to an engine’s rotational forces and measures how much of that force is available when an engine moves itself. While horsepower is merely measured in, well, horsepower, torque is usually measured in pounds feet (lb.-ft). How Torque Works In A Vehicle Every engine, if it is gasoline or…
Horsepower is in reference to the power a vehicles engine creates. It’s gauged through the power required to move five hundred and fifty pounds 1 foot in 1 second or by the power required to move thirty-three thousand pounds 1 foot in 60 seconds. Power is measured by the time it takes to accomplish the…