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Originally Posted by TESLAASTRO
For all you techies out there, can you answer why torque is advantageous, in addition to HP?.....
The 300 Lb Ft of torque in the 135 seems impressive....how will that relate in a non-technical way to the driving feel I get from the car?.....
Thanks....
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oh' boy!
This thread will open up alot of worms unless handled correctly. This is a very in-depth topic but many here will try to explain it in laymans terms.
Without getting to technical...
Torque is what you feel the car doing. The feeling you get when accelerating hard, the way the car feels like it pushing you forward, or
pulling you forward as some might say.. A car with low-end Torque(low rpm's), will pull alot harder than a car that has very little torque.
Cars can be egnineered to have a small
powerband (An engines rpm range), with alot of it's power in the low-end with alot of grunt.
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Or with a much broader, longer, smooth, powerband that revs alot higher, meaning that even though they don't pull as hard, they have longer legs.
Balancing this in an engine design is tough.
The N54 (engine in the 135i) has the same amount of torque at 1,700rpm's as a 2006 Corvette..! Thats what makes this car,
this ENGINE, so bad ass! That fact that it is an inline-6 that has high revs, and also offers prodigious amounts of low-end torque. :biggrin:
Hope that helps in someway... :drinking:
-Garrett