Newton-metres

Clarkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:20

Why on earth is it these days that people (including manufacturers) seem to like mixing up imperial and metric units by quoting power figures in bhp and torque in Nm. This really grinds my gears™, they simply do it to quote a larger number in the hope that people will be more impressed? Pathetic...

Long live lb/ft!!

blueboy2001 · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:22

Most manufactuers quote power outputs in PS these days, which is metric for bhp.

As long as you are comparing like with like I don't think it really matters.

paradigm · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:23

VAG quote in PS and Nm, they would both be metric

Clarkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:24

PS is NOT metric. It is simply another way to make the power figure look higher.

kW is metric.

Howard · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:30

It irritates me too as I'm used to Ft-lbs (PS isn't so bad because there's barely anything in the conversion) so I usually just bang the figures into Google, i.e "150nm ft-lbs" and theres usually a site with both figures

[TW]Fox · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:32

I quote figures in NM becuase its a higher number and this makes me feel better.

It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

L0rdMike · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:35

[TW]Fox said:
I quote figures in NM becuase its a higher number and this makes me feel better.

It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

Howard · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:36

[TW]Fox said:
It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

Yeah mine has a comfy 350bhp/400nm :rolleyes:

guess the car

Clarkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:08

[TW]Fox said:
I quote figures in NM becuase its a higher number and this makes me feel better.

It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

go on then fox, quote me doing this, I want to see.

Gibbo · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:16

[TW]Fox said:
I quote figures in NM becuase its a higher number and this makes me feel better.

It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

HI there

My car has 510Lb-Ft of torque, the NM figure I don't mention as it scares me too much.

Dogbreath · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:56

howardcanning said:
It irritates me too as I'm used to Ft-lbs (PS isn't so bad because there's barely anything in the conversion) so I usually just bang the figures into Google, i.e "150nm ft-lbs" and theres usually a site with both figures

You can get google to calculate it directly, just type in "150 newton meters in foot pounds"

cymatty · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:57

100nm = around 75lb-ft, simple calculation.

Tomsk · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:57

Gibbo said:
HI there

My car has 510Lb-Ft of torque, the NM figure I don't mention as it scares me too much.

Wow. Have you tuned the BMW?

Howard · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:04

Dogbreath said:
You can get google to calculate it directly, just type in "150 newton meters in foot pounds"

Damn.. It didn't do that last time I tried

TripleT · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:20

Tomsk said:
Wow. Have you tuned the BMW?

Hasn't sold it quite yet though. No money has changed hands and the log book is still in his name

Zip · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:21

Most people use Kilo watts down here.

But i dont know Kilowatts! i know BHP

Its bloody annoying

BHP is what it should stay as as well as NM :cool:

agw_01 · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:28

[TW]Fox said:
It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

Funny but uncalled for!

Bear · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:30

[TW]Fox said:
I quote figures in NM becuase its a higher number and this makes me feel better.

It's like quoting performance figures for a car you are not insured to drive, and discussing it as 'your car'

oohhh meeooowww

Clarkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 20:24

what a crock, won't bother making threads in here again, every single one ends up getting trashed, idiots :/

Morba · 13 Jul 2007 at 20:29

i have missed another legendary thread it seems! :/