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do you prefer to work in HP or KW?

KWs is the way of the future!
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HP speak english whipper snapper!
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Postby Mr Revhead » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:22 pm

ok what do you prefer to use?
which unit are you most comfortable with?
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Postby Lloyd » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:32 pm

Kinda hard to say. Newer stuff I think in kW but older stuff I usually compare in my head using hp. Toyota stuff in hp makes little sense to me until i think about it in kW and vice verca for old dinosaurs (not that they ever actually have a kW rating)
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Postby xRyanx » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:33 pm

When someone says "200hp" i can understand what there on about, as aposed to someone saying "170BBQ" kW.
So personally, i prefer HP as i understand it.
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Postby Mr Revhead » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:41 pm

yeah, if i hear KW i have to mentally work it out into HP.

200kw means nothing to me.....
but 270hp makes me smile :P
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Postby matt dunn » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:57 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:yeah, if i hear KW i have to mentally work it out into HP.

200 kilowatts means nothing to me.....
but 270 goat power makes me smile :P
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Postby Mr Revhead » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:59 pm

:roll: theres always one
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Postby Jazza » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:04 pm

matt dunn wrote:
Mr Revhead wrote:yeah, if i hear KW i have to mentally work it out into HP.

200 kilowatts means nothing to me.....
but 270 goat power makes me hard :P


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Postby Jebus » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:09 pm

Same as rev, I like to talk KW, but if I hear either I just mentally convert it.

KW FTW
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Postby edwagon » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:18 pm

rwkw for anything late model and modified
HP for anything old school
kw at flywheel gets converted to hp...
read an article on a restored HQ holden and it said it had 140kw - WTF!? just not right... :?

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Postby Caveman » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:26 am

We live in New Zealand, Système International d'Unités (SI Units) for us.

Power in Watts, Torque in Newton Metres.
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Postby Cahuna » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:34 am

KW for preference, just because I've spent far too many years reading car magazines that always quote them. I sometimes try converting bhp to KW when someone is bragging about their power but usually don't bother (instead I just nod and say "that's nice..." :lol: )
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Postby Silent Knight » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:58 am

I understand HP more than I do KW.
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Postby no_8wire » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:08 pm

Easier enough to convert any way...kw to horsepower anyway...I prefer HP...because its bigger! haha :lol:
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Postby Akane » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:33 pm

Up until recently, I always work in hp, then now I work in rwkw.

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Postby Dragger_Dan » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:19 pm

no_8wire wrote:I prefer HP...because its bigger! haha :lol:


My sentiments exactally. Especially when you have an 88kw car ... 2 figure numbers sounds slow, 'I've got 120hp' sounds so much better :P
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Postby Distrb » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:30 pm

I like Kw.. coz its always more impressive when you have more of them, especially when you work it out in Hp for all the people that like to speak that language...

Hp makes more sense though..
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Postby Adamal » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:01 pm

I'm comfortable with both really. You see them both everywhere these days!
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Postby Leon » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:12 pm

I don't have nearly enough of either to care.
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Postby TRDWGN » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:28 pm

:lol: I like PS as it is just soooo JDM YO!
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Postby Dirtbag » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:31 pm

kw > hp, though it would be close, ive always kind of used both of them.
gt4 u can change between them and no actual conversion happens. So my 800hp skyline is now a 800kw skyline :D
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