Car question: If I'm looking to compare on paper based on whatever the technical term for pep is, I'm thinking I'm looking at horsepower. How important is engine size? What mitigates the HP rating? Do reports list 0-60?
This might be more complex than you think. Lots of car reports list 0-60 time - this is probably the best measure of "pep." Horsepower is important. So is torque. If you have two engines of equal horsepower but one is bigger (meaning, has a larger displacement) then the bigger engine will put out more torque (assuming the gearing is the same).
Torque can be thought of as the "twisting" power of an engine, whereas horsepower is the total power of the engine. That's about all I understand of the two, except that for initial acceleration, torque is more important, but as the car goes faster, horsepower becomes more important.
Of course, the horsepower and torque of a car have to be compared to the car's weight - obviously a lighter car with the same engine is gonna accelerate faster. Some reviews, datasheets, etc will give a car's power-to-weight ratio. But looking at a car's 0-60 time is probably the simplest indication of a car's "pep."
eta: I'm assuming that your use of "pep" is somewhat synonymous with "acceleration."
For those of you keeping score, the Reds scored three runs against Pedro in the 1st, but the Mets managed to tie the game up in the 3rd.
I can't get the broadcast on AM radio at my desk, but the internets inform me that it's top of the 8th, Reds trailing by 2. They're still in it, baby.
(The yipyip monsters always scared me when I was a kid. Don't know why.)
The yipyip monsters were always my favorites.
The Sesame Street "near...far" just gave me the first true happy I've had all day.
From the first moment I saw Titanic, and heard the chorus of that awful Celine Dion song, I always heard Grover singing it.
I can't get the broadcast on AM radio at my desk, but the internets inform me that it's top of the 8th, Reds trailing by 2. They're still in it, baby.
I bought the MLB Gameday audio package for just such a problem. I'm listening to the game right now, AIFG.
MFNLaw found one the same links I was gonna post. But I also found this one which explains the torque vs. horsepower in somewhat simpler terms.
ita, for example, my old silver MX-6 had 110 hp @4700 rpm, and 130 ft-lbs torque @ 3000 rpm. My newer turbo version of that same car has 145 hp and 190 ft-lb. More torque = more wheee! aka getting pushed back in your seat, aka, pep.
I'm assuming that your use of "pep" is somewhat synonymous with "acceleration."
It's as good an assumption as any, and better than most.
I'm skimming reviews trying to find out what's peppier than my VR6 Jetta. Which looks like this:
- Acceleration (0-60 mph): 7.6 sec.
- Braking Distance(60-0 mph):125 ft.
- Roadholding Index: 0.80
- Base Number of Cylinders: 6
- Base Engine Size: 2.8 liters
- Base Engine Type: V6
- Horsepower: 174 hp @ 5800 rpm
- Torque: 181 ft-lbs. @ 3200 rpm
So I'm going to, then, focus on comparable accelerations, and look best at stuff with higher or equivalent horsepower and torque. And then maybe that engine size thing. Is the roadholding index from 0-1?
whee! hee!
in my head lori is saying WHEEEE! really loud and scooting around lab in office chair.
laughing like a goon myself.
I love trash
anything dirty or rotten or rusty
I am loving that Nutty is already taunting other teams for their mediocrity and Hillenbrand-having.
Not taunting. Well, only a little. Seriously, considering they're the 2nd-nearest AL team to me, I know nothing about TOR. Although, I expect to know more about them next year, when they have longer purse strings.
I am not loving the news from Nutty about comebackers to the face since Emmett will probably be pitching this year.
Schilling got hit on his pitching hand twice in one game, in 2003. It wasn't till the second hit that it occurred to him he might have broken bones. (He did.)
I found an article online that proclaimed Mussina's broken nose was the best reason to keep pro bats wooden instead of aluminum. Off a metal bat, that ball could have killed him. (As it was, he got 20 stitches, but was pitching again 3 weeks later.)
That said, I bet grade school leagues do not have pitchers that throw in the 90s, so the balls, even off metal bats, do not come back at 100mph.
