What does CC and horsepower actually mean in cars?
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cc is cubic centimeters, its a sub unit o fliters and if i recall it descrubes the isplacement of the cylenders (i.e. if you dropped all the clenders to the bottom and filled them with water you would have xx cc or x liters. horsepower is a mesuremet of the peak power of the engine in its power. horsepower in the traditional sense was based off of the legitimate power of a horse- “one **horsepower** equals 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute—that is, the power necessary to lift a total mass of 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute ” cars are actually mesured in BHP or break horsepower which is a different, automotive normalized power unit. it is called break cos it is mesured by breaking the engine on a dynamo and mesures the real output at the wheels with all the frictional losses involved whereas hp messures the output of the engine, BHP is always lower than HP
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