a heated argument has broken out as to what is the difference so any explanation would be greatly appreciated please

HELP!!

 

one of them means your ***** is larger than the other ???

 

BHP is the measured useable power (called brake because that is what dynamometers effectively do, acts as a brake against which the engine must do work)

HP is the calculated power and is defined such that 1hp is the power required to lift 33,000lbs one foot in one min. A theoretical amount because obviously you could never do this test without using gears etc that would skew the result.

 

Brake.

 

same thing mate

or maybe then meant at the flywheel figures atw etc etc


bhp and hp is the same u need that for top end and excellent for drag racing

then u get torque thats pickup speed, pulling power like me im a babe magnet i can pull haha just kidding


u have both u will rock well i have both anyway 610 ft torque and 700 bhp at the mo haha i aint bragging but its true

soon to be 680 or 690 ft torque amen

 

moses - you are to the english language what Fred Dibnah was to old chimneys



Hoskib - ajm is correct

 

how many horses to pull your carage along.
Imagen 300 horses pulling one car. that **** loads of power

 

it would be sh1te in the twisties though

 

What hell carage? Is it a car in the garage?

Nice, clear explanation, ajm; did you google it or was it real?

 

Bubba - I reckon it was real, cos he explains maths stuff that I struggle with

 

300 horses pulling a carriage or 1, does it matter? the only difference is acceleration because 300 horses or 1 they can only run at the same speed (u following?) so 300 horses still only get u to say 40 miles per hour (average speed of a horse for example)but the more horses pulling it the less effort required by each horse so should hit 40mph quicker. make sense? or am I talking bollox? (been drinking so wouldnt suprise me)

 

bollox m8 - don't worry about it though

 

why would I worry, lager gets rid off all worries

 

makes perfect sense although iv had a tin or twa an all!

 

Former mechanical engineer me... I am a walking conversion table!

If you want it in new money:

1lb = (1/2.2046)kg <-- edited for bubba
1ft = 0.3048m
1min = 60 sec
g = 9.81m/s/s

We need to convert foot pounds per minute into Newton meters per second...

So 1hp = ((33,000/2.2046) x g x 0.3048) / 60 = 746 Watts or 0.746 kW

 

Actually, your average horse puts out around 1.6 hp, the horsepower figure was underestimated to make steam engines seem more powerful to the mill owners.

 

The lb to kg conversion's the wrong way round I think.

 

well spotted!

Edit: I suppose a careless and embarrassing error proves I didn't google it!

 

cheers fella kind of understand that and TBH no-one in the argument was right anyway

 

ajm is a mad scientist! I know because he said so.

And he is right of course

Les