There's a research on it for heavy trucks. In traction control, the brakes are applied automatically and adequately to prevent wheelspin. Mercedes Benz S-Class has an Automated Braking System. The car brakes by itself. Yes.
ABS can also mean Antiblockiersystem (German), anti-skid brake system.
There are many meaning to the abbreviation ABS and all of them are correct.

nice thread with nice explaination, thumbs up!
yea i saw a workshop sell some sorf of equipment that called Advanced braking system but dont know what it does

Thanks!!
-=Axis=-, tunertoobe...a good explaination from big brother

Does your job related to automobile industry??
any website your recommend for the car maintenance studies
and car industry term?

More hp does not necessarily better top speed. It depends, If you have trash gearbox (bad ratios) you won't go anywhere

Yes, more torque means more power, If you are in touge racing given scenario eg: uphill, I'm sure turbo(or any force induction) powered will pwned the vtec although both engine has the same hp and displacement but the torque is different. A good example is Honda S2000. It has rotten torque but good hp.

This post has been edited by igor_is300: Jan 23 2007, 09:46 PM

go stan = reverse

*heck its still a car terms understanding in malaysia

This post has been edited by Kerry1136: Jan 23 2007, 10:00 PM

I get ur mean...!!

is Cross done(costs dan) = reverse

this is Malaysian classic car term!!!

Haha sorry I don't know how to spell it because we always hear msians keep saying gostan gostan or costsdon...haha as long as its done proper then its good enough aye

2007 HondaS2000 standard spec

Horsepower @ rpm (SAE net, Rev 8/04)
237 @ 7800

Torque (lb.-ft. @ rpm)
162 @ 6800

I take it that a "better pick up" car for daily usage are those with good torque @ lower RPM, right?

I read an English article on Malaysian English and actually gostan (reverse) is short for 'go astern'

hmm.....correct and also means better acceleration in general as usually the layman do not know what good torque @ low RPM means. they only know the car can accelerate fast ....

Reverse = Go Astern.

But since malaysian is english is bad.. most people start making mistake and saying go stan... go stan.

If you know torque meaning in car...
please share the meaning to us.

[Don't be selfish on sharing]

Torque is basically the twisting motion that's happening to the cranshaft.
To put it a little simpler:
Imagine if you want to loosen a nut, you need a spanner right?
Okay when you are loosening the nut with the spanner, what motion do you use? What do you do with your hand when handling the spanner? You make a circular motion with the spanner by pushing/pulling the other end of the spanner right? So basically you applied torque to the nut.

For engines, just replace the spanner with a crankshaft and your hand with the a piston.

To calculate torque, the formula is: force x distance(from the point where the force is applied to the centre of the axis of the crank, sorry if explanation is a bit blur. )
The longer the crank, the more torque you produce. Also the more force you apply, the more torque as well.

This post has been edited by tunertoobe: Jan 24 2007, 10:18 PM

as for Proton Saga LMST some of them refer to LaMeST.

This post has been edited by eddyann: Jan 25 2007, 08:33 AM

not latest model saga tank ?

DVVT = VVT-i...for example..myvi using a DVVT 1.3L DOHC codename K3VE, toyota avanza using the similar engine but with VVT-i 1.3L DOHC K3VE..i know most of u guys knew this..just wanna share..peace



This post has been edited by turbo10: Jan 25 2007, 10:17 AM

in short, torque is the twisting force produce by the engine. A car engine can spin at different speed, thus RPM, but they might have different force at different speed.

Diesel engine has good torque at low RPM. Meaning they have good standstill acceleration, and they have the force to pull heavy loads. Petrol car usually have good torque at high RPM, thus can go higher max speed.

As for horsepower, it is just a number calculated from torque. it is basically calculated based on torque multiply by RPM multiply by 1/5252. So it means that if you car engine can give out high torque at high RPM, then your car engine has high horsepower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
http://www.procivic.com/pages-horsepower_torque/index.html
http://craig.backfire.ca/pages/autos/horsepower

good useful link, thank you


if you found some maintenance car related website, pls share