More Torque than Hp?

mullinax95 said

I've always thought/heard that torque is King on the street and Horsepower is King at the track.
The reason being .... from my understanding... is by the time the HP is kicking in you're breaking the speed limit by a long shot. Speeding and street racing is illegal! :D

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Your engine makes hp from idle to redline. A dyno graph is misleading. I feel lots think under 5252 rpm torque is at work and above hp takes over. Which is untrue. The torque curve is whats is recorded by the dyno the hp curve is whats calculated from the torque. Technically you could throw away the torque curve after cause the hp gives you all the information needed to compare and analysis engines.

But the torque curve does help in one way. Its visually hard to read the very important under hp curve. Where the torque is visually easy for our brains to represent what going on with the hp curve.
Cause we know a flat wide band and high lbs-ft per cid means a strong under the hp curve. But the actual torque numbers are somewhat meaningless cause an engine with 250 lbs-ft peak can be way more powerful than an engine with 500 lbs-ft but obviously would have to be revving in a way higher rpm band.