Speed

[Clavin78]

Besides the obvious answer of, "More horses, torque, and less weight," what other things will make a vehicle quicker?

[pwall]

less resistance (i.e. aerodynamics)

[GMSea97]

Road contact...aka friction. The less you contact the road the more speed can be built, but as an ugly side effect you also lose control. Gearing can effect speed, a taller gear ratio will increase speed but decrease acceleration. Where as a shorter gear ration will increase acceleration and decrease speed.

[HyperBuzzin]

I've heard from some ricers that alot of stickers will make ya go faster.

[Clavin78]

I read somewhere that you are only as quick as how fast your torque increases. Like if your torque increases only slowly then your acceleration will be slow but if your reach your max torque qucikly then you will be a lot quicker. IMO

[Schmids5.3l]

I think Im missing something. You can pretty much mash the gas in anything and hit peak torque in a matter of seconds.

 

Horsepower is the rate of which torque is applied. EX: If you have 900 ft lbs of torque and 200 horsepower in a truck, its going to be slow. Pull anything, but be slow. You can have that torque at 1000 rpms and still be slow. But if you have 400 ft lbs and 400 hp, your gonna blow that 900ftlb/200hp trucks doors off. This isnt includeing gears or weight or anything. horsepower is simply a unit of the rate of doing work. 74X something watts. Kinda hard to explain. Horsepower is how fast your going to use what torque you have, given at a certain RPM. Do a search on yahoo on what is horsepower or something.

[GMSea97]

Horsepower and torq are obviouse when you are talking about speed. The thread starter ask what other things make a vehicle quicker. ie. gearing, aerodynamics.

[carneyman]

Horsepower and torq are obviouse when you are talking about speed. The thread starter ask what other things make a vehicle quicker.  ie. gearing, aerodynamics.

 

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