Comments by "Lifted_Above" (@lifted_above) on "Who's faster? Explained and Simulated - Horsepower vs Torque" video.

  1. Numbers with combustion engines is mostly a game with people, especially those in the modification space. So much of it is merely boasting. The point with numbers has always been a quotation with "peak" numbers. Then the company they keep returns the counter-statement, and they return their counter-statement and back and forth and back and forth. It's like two enemies on a battlefield taunting each other about the size of their weapons and horses before they prove whether their claims have any basis in reality. Fact of the matter is, the issue of internal combustion engines, transmissions, tire adhesion, and all of the rest are very complex. People want to boast of their ability to distill something that is extremely complex down into a few simple statements. It's simply not how the science of locomotion works.
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  2. Simple stuff: TORQUE IS A TWISTING FORCE. How many of you have put a lot of twisting force into the stuck lid on a jar and nothing moved? Sure you have. Torque can be STATIC. When this twisting force causes movement, more physics become involved to measure it. Twisting force that causes movement results in TIME and DISTANCE (RPM). Torque, time, and distance is how horsepower is calculated. Horsepower cannot be calculated without torque value. This is why torque cannot be separated or juxtaposed to horsepower.
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