A&Q about 350Z
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I was looking at this website;
It lists International engines available in Brazil. They list the power in "cv". The torque is in Kgf-m which is kilogram force meter, but what the heck is "cv"???
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huh? i fugred it would be in Watts and Newton-meters.
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Its a french measurment thats essentually there version of HP, stands for chevaux vapeur. If you look around you should be able to find a conversion chart somewhere online.
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yep, he's right. vapeur means power and chevaux means horse, so it is literally horsepower (we say brake horsepower in the UK).
every heard of the citroen 2CV ? the name was because of the engine, it was a 2bhp engine, hence the "2" for 2 (duh..) an the "CV" for chevaux vapeur. so, it was literally translated as "2 horsepower".
so those figure in CV are the same as bhp.
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unless their horeses arent as strong as ours...lol
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yea, they are french after all....
j/k...but in general british people dont like the french so much, them trying to invade us like 200-400 years ago, we keep grudges.
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I can dig it. thanks.