Did not say we were saying the same thing... I said I thought your perspective is wrong, but like most perspectives it is intractable...
Feel free to disagree with my statements... the first you quote is an opinion, backed up time and again by armchair versus real world races...
The second is an accurate statement (technically)...
In physics, power is the rate at which work is performed or energy is converted.
Ignoring the first half (definition of or), Horsepower is the rate at which energy is converted from one form to another...
Vehicles convert chemical potential energy into Kinetic energy
Power measures that conversion...
Ergo your horsepower should be a measure of how well your vehicle converts chemical energy into momentum...
or gas mileage...
simple steps that lead to an incredibly inaccurate conclusion...
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I need to indicate when I am being snide better...
Now what I was saying was I do not feel like I can convince you of anything... And you should probably stop trying to convince me. I understand your argument. I understood it when I was introduced to work in high school physics... I thought it was hokey then (unless you are talking about electricity or hydraulics), I think it is hokey now.
You claim to not understand my argument. If I was still 18 I would spend the next few days trying to explain it... fortunately I am old and decrepit and have lost my vigor...
I am still just as stubborn in my opinions though. The only two uses that I can find in and internal combustion motor for HP are
1) Bragging rights for people who do not know better (it is was fun to stomp S2000 off the line in my under
powered car... it is now fun to stomp on over-cammed hi horsepower mustangs in my slightly less underpowered car)...
2) Describing the torque curve... which you said validates your argument... except that we have a better description of the torque curve... rpm.
Now seriously, this is my last post on this particular subject...
Bon Soir, et bon chance.
