More Torque than Hp?

I dont understand why this keeps on being misunderstood. Torque and Hp aren't two separate things that have different abilities to get your car down the road. There basically one in the same. Hp is the combined ability of torque and rpm. Torque and rpm is what moves and accelerate your vehicle from the first moment of movement to the top speed and the rate of acceleration and everything in between.

Torque and rpm combined are the power your engines has. Your engine can't do one without the other. Try measure how much torque your engine has with it off (no rpm).

You can just times torque and rpm together and still get the power curve. Just the numbers will be a bit meaningless. In the millions. The reason they use the constant of 5252 in the equation was so we could compare them to the horses we were replacing at the time. Now days watts would make more sense.

Another way to know torque in itself doesn't tell you everything is take our standard way of comparing performance the quarter mile.
Not one of you can tell me how much torque i need to go 12's with a 3300 lbs car. But you all could figure out the hp.

Probably something like 350 hp. Now theres many ways to make it from 920 lbs-ft @ 2000 rpm to 115 lbs-ft @ 16,000 rpm and everywhere in between. All will get the job done with very different gearing.

Why doesn't torque alone tell the performance ability of the engine.
Image two guys moving patio stones. One guy is bigger and stronger than the other but the other is faster. So the bigger guy can move two stones at once but the smaller guy do it twice as fast so the both with finish the job at the same time.

So an engine A that make 500 lbs-ft at 5000 rpm has the same ability as an engine B the makes 250 lbs-ft at 10,000 rpm. So engine A does more work per revolution but B does the same work in 2 revolutions but in the same amount of time which is the power.

Plus when we talk about torque engines what we are really saying is engines that make hp at low rpm.