A&Q about 350Z
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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
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You can't "convert" liters to horsepower. Did you want to convert horsepower to kilowatts?
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Yeah, dude. The liter is a metric unit of volume whereas hp is an imperial unit of power.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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well, horsepower isn't measured or tested, but calculated.
Horsepower = (torque x RPM)/5252.
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All answers being right, registering to post in a three year old thread is frowned upon.
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it's HyperDude's fault...
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But, Im going to blame you anyway.
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