Torque - better on the Supra than other cars?

Hi all,

I'm Jez, from Kent, and am looking to buy a TT sometime early next year. Currently I'm driving an 8-valve Fiat Punto Mk2 with 58bhp and have never driven any kind of sports car in my life

What I was interested in knowing is not what I could beat on the motorway (I'm guessing pretty much everything) but how much higher/better the torque is on a TT than any average car, say Civic or Celica.

Does the level of torque go hand-in-hand with BHP?

Look forward to posting some more on this great forum

Jez

racing on the highway is not something you base on buying a new car on to be honest, but to answer part of your question then the Supra has an in-line 6 cylinder engine which provides plenty of torque. Compared to a lot of other cars which stick to 2L 4 cylinder engines.

You tend to find that with the twin turbo engines that the torque figure follows the BHP figure close to a linear fashion. ie double the BHP and you're more or less doubling the torque figure.

Turbocharged engines have bags of low-down torque, once you've driven one you'll never want to go back to tedious NAs

-Ian

Views above is what I have noticed aswell.. The in-line 6 cylinder on a TT has only a tiny value below its BHP figure compared to other engines such as the 4 cylinders and I think even the V6's the inline 6 has the better figures..

On my dyno the figures were almost identical.

Performance:

440 BHP @ 5624 RPM

434 ft/lb @ 4310 RPM

but how much higher/better the torque is on a TT than any average car, say Civic or Celica.

 

Welcome mate....the statement above is like comparing chalk with cheese mate

how much higher/better the torque is on a TT than any average car, say Civic or Celica.

 

Does the level of torque go hand-in-hand with BHP?

 

Look forward to posting some more on this great forum

 

Jez

The question you ask is impossible to answer as each engine will have been built for a specific application and it's power characteristics developed according to the designers brief.

The engineers who built the V8 for the XK8 were aiming to achieve different goals than those engineers building the 2JZ GTE.

The Supra engine just would not work in the XK8, the buyers of XK8's would hate it.

Torque and bhp do go hand in hand, they are both related.

The equation looks like this

bhp = 2 x Pi x torque(ftlbs) x rpm divided by 33000

Since 2 xPi is a constant this can be shortened to

bhp = torque x rpm divided by 5252

torque = bhp x 5252 divided by rpm

If you have one value you can calculate the other and both bhp and torque will be the same at 5252 rpm.

If you look at a dyno / rolling road printout you will see both lines cross at around 5252 rpm.

When the supra was released it was known as 'the torque king from japan' and now its known as the 'the torque king from japan'. So yeah, it has a fair bit

When the supra was released it was known as 'the torque king from japan' and now its known as the 'the torque king from japan'. So yeah, it has a fair bit

He he, i like that!

The torque king...I like the sound of it

Are there any members on here from south-east Kent with a TT?

There are a few members up Medway area mate (inc. me but I'm N/A)

The N/A Team are not exactly lacking touque, The N/A packs a fair old punch of g-force.

mine had 232lbs so i was impressed with that. my cousins 300bhp 200sx had a lower figure than mine

Dredge!

I would be careful going from a 58bhp to a Supra TT, you may end up in a hedge lol

I went from a 50bhp Saxo to a BPU Supra and I was just fine!