How much horsepower does your main car have?

[MovingTarget]

120hp (97 Cavalier - 2.2L i4)
170hp (87 Caprice - 5.0L v8)

I voted for the lower rating as gas is high right now. Hence, I drive the Cavalier.

What can I say, new(er) cars are for suckers.

 

[BlackTigers]

car -110
bike - 60

....kinda sad really, haha

 

[jlee]

Subaru 285/323ish flywheel
MR2 no idea..probably will be 290/300 rwhp, ish.

 

[zoiks]

330. Infiniti G37.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

105 killerwasps. (135hp)

 

[AdamK47]

Depends on the day of the week and the weather.

 

[natto fire]

Very few takers on the torque argument? Seriously? Having felt torque, I much prefer it over some arbitrary made up number...

 

[Throckmorton]

Very few takers on the torque argument? Seriously? Having felt torque, I much prefer it over some arbitrary made up number...

HP isn't any more made up than torque. HP is the product of torque and RPM.

 

[Throckmorton]

Jeep 4.0L I6
190 hp (142 kW) @ 4600 rpm, 235 lb·ft (319 N·m) @ 3200 rpm

 

[Greenman]

Very few takers on the torque argument? Seriously? Having felt torque, I much prefer it over some arbitrary made up number...

Apparently, you don't understand the measurements you're referring to.
Torque is a measurement of an engines power, how much twist it has at the crank. Horsepower measures how much work that engine will do. Horsepower is torque x rpm's / 5252. Huge torque is worthless without rpm's, it's the combination that makes things happen.

 

[ElZoidberg]

372, Challenger (Summer)
125, Mazda Protege (Winter, hard to believe it has even 100 driving it)

 

[Meghan54]

Enough hp to do what we need......but more than enough torque to pull our trailers, which is the more important metric, at least for our situation.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Apparently, you don't understand the measurements you're referring to.
Torque is a measurement of an engines power, how much twist it has at the crank. Horsepower measures how much work that engine will do. Horsepower is torque x rpm's / 5252. Huge torque is worthless without rpm's, it's the combination that makes things happen.

wrong.

1) torque is a moment, a twisting force. torque does work. power is a rate of work (energy/time)

2) horsepower measures how much work an engine does per unit time. that's why power has the units of energy/time

3) huge torque without RPM's is useless if you're trying to go fast, yes, but if you're trying to move big things...have fun using a motorcycle engine to pull a stump, tow a boat, or a ton of cargo.



200/220 at the crank, 180/200 at the wheels

bike is 75/50 and 65/45 i think?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Didn't we do this like a couple months ago. Pretty sure all the usual suspects posted in that thread too.

HP is meaningless. It's all about power to weight ratio baby.

:'(

 

[dug777]

Jeep 4.0L I6
190 hp (142 kW) @ 4600 rpm, 235 lb·ft (319 N·m) @ 3200 rpm

Pretty similar to my 5VZ-FE

3.4 litre 24v V6, and 142kW @ 4800rpm, 303Nm @3600 rpm I think.

 

[KentState]

Very few takers on the torque argument? Seriously? Having felt torque, I much prefer it over some arbitrary made up number...

90% of the cars on this forum have close torque and ho numbers. The exceptins are desiel trucks or high reving cars like the S2000 or Ferrari. Plus someone can start another poll if they wish. I know my car would still be 500+.

 

[Sunny129]

wheels or crank?

Crank.

well that impossible to know exactly unless you've had the engine out of your car and put on an engine dyno. but being that i made 441rwhp on a Dyno-com roller dyno (which reads essentially the same as a Dynojet), and given the modifications to my drivetrain (i expect an estimated ~12% drivetrain loss, even though drivetrain loss can't really be summed up as a single percentage in the real world), that puts me right at the 500HP mark.

oh yeah, and since someone mentioned the importance of the power-to-weight ratio, my car weighs in around 3,300-lbs. so my power:weight is 0.15hp/lb. alternatively, my weightower is 6.59-lbs/hp.

 

[Sunny129]

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[Jumpem]

2010 Outback - 170hp. More than enough for daily driving.

 

[RockinZ28]

That dyno session was out of state, I live in Arizona where none of the well known reputable 03/04 Cobra tuners are. All East and West coast :'(

http://racersedgetuning.net/features-retracecar.html

No smog nazis though

 

[SparkyJJO]

270 hp @ 6000 RPM. 275 lb-ft torque @ 3600 RPM.

It does the job.

 

[Malak]

220 which is an upgrade from the 100 my last car had. I don't really need a lot of horsepower, don't even see the point. Any mods I do will be concerning the look of the car.

 

[madoka]

Of my two daily drivers. . . 416 and 320.

 

[Skurge]

If i add torque its 130hp and 206 N-m (151 ft-lbf).

 

[SSSnail]

Enough powers to outrun cars that have 3x its rated HP in the twisties . I can turn.