Is Torque King?

Hersbird said
Everyone agrees that work is work and power is power, torque from a mechanical engineering standpoint is not just the pressure but the movement. From a physics standpoint you could have torque without movement but that is not the kind of torque we are talking about, we are talking about torque as a measure of work which does require the movement.

Torque is the combined power stroke of all 8 cylinders in one period of time.

Hersbird said
Still the torque is really what you are feeling here. 400 foot pounds accelerates at twice the rate of 200 ft lbs weather the motor is at 2000 rpm or 8000 rpm.

Let's say thought almost practicality impossible say you got two 2 stroke engines and one that only can do one rpm makes 400 lbs ft and the other that only does two rpm makes 200 lbs ft both can do the same amount of work in one minute (hp= work over time) 1st engine take one revolution to do it and the 2 nd engine takes two revolutions to do it.