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Litres to Horse Power conversion?


aidandaniel
10-28-2003, 04:48 AM
:banghead:

What is the horse power conversion for a Mazda 2.6L MPV Auto?

I need the european conversion, I have been told it is 15?

I am registering my USA spec vehicle in France.

Cheers

ivymike1031
10-28-2003, 03:07 PM
You can't "convert" liters to horsepower. Did you want to convert horsepower to kilowatts?

454Casull
10-28-2003, 05:03 PM
Yeah, dude. The liter is a metric unit of volume whereas hp is an imperial unit of power.

ivymike1031
10-28-2003, 10:39 PM
If you have a 1994 Mazda MPV with a 2.6L inline-4 engine, Carpoint (autos.msn.com) says that the peak power output of that engine is 121hp. That would most likely be SAE HP @ flywheel, but I'm not 100% on that. Carpoint also give erroneous values from time to time.

MioCLK
10-28-2003, 11:47 PM
well, you can't convert litres to horsepower
but it is possible if you are trying to covert SAE horsepower to DIN horsepower

1 SAE horsepower (US standard)
the ability to lift 33,000lbs one foot in one minute

1 DIN horsepower (European standard, except UK)
the ability to life 450,000kg one centimeter in one minute

1 DIN is around 0.98629 SAE

SaabJohan
10-30-2003, 04:16 PM
The european standard used today is EEC (European Economic Community). A horsepower doesn't only have diffrent definitions but the test methods are diffrent, this makes the numbers difficult to compare exactly.

HyperDude
09-22-2006, 07:39 PM
converting liters to cubic inches can be done by multiplying the liters x 61 ...ex: 6.0 liters x 61 = 366 cubic inches - kinda fun to convert old engine sizes to liters as well - just divide the engine size by 61 - so a 409 (she's real fine) would convert to 6.7 litre or a 427 coverts to 7 litres. 289 mustang 4.7 litres. make sense?

2.2 Straight six
09-22-2006, 07:51 PM
The european standard used today is EEC (European Economic Community). A horsepower doesn't only have diffrent definitions but the test methods are diffrent, this makes the numbers difficult to compare exactly.

well, horsepower isn't measured or tested, but calculated.

Horsepower = (torque x RPM)/5252.

TheSilentChamber
09-23-2006, 02:23 AM
All answers being right, registering to post in a three year old thread is frowned upon.

2.2 Straight six
09-23-2006, 09:57 AM
it's HyperDude's fault...

Moppie
09-24-2006, 05:35 PM
it's HyperDude's fault...


But, Im going to blame you anyway.


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