64 barracuda 273

Dale Davies said
Well, on the torque and HP front, you can have torque without HP, but you can not have HP without torque.
Steam engines and electric motors make their maximum torque at zero RPM.

And they would also do zero work, torque is meaningless without movement, and were dealing with gas engines that always make power while running. For us it's all about power, and yes there's two NA ways to get there more torque and or carrying it to higher rpms.

Dale Davies said
Plug that into your HP calculator.
Large ship engines only run at about 150 RPM maximum. They may produce 50,000 HP. The torque is about 1,750,666 lb/ft. For street bullshit poker, torque is king.

It's about putting more average power to the ground over a time frame.

Don't get this insistence on making it torque vs hp when it's more about horsepower and which best ratio of torque and rpm to get there for the application.