No. The question I was answering was how ft-lbs differs from lb-ft.

Yes, work or energy.

While the numbers are similar, foot-pounds is a unit of force where as pound-foot is a unit of torque. lb-ft is a calculation based off of ft-lb.

How is this misinformation?

Right, temperature beyond a certain point always effects efficiency. just like in a gas powered motor.

No this is inertia based. the whole calculate hp or calculate tq is a six in one hand half dozen in the other argument. It's effectively the same math just with one extra step.

Which means they probably have some air to water cooling system like a radiator and therefore exterior air temp would not be of much effect on the system (assuming they were using properly set up cooling fans while on the dyno).

No. lb-ft and ft-lb are two different measurements.

Correct, I was more or less clarifying that the system in use does not actually use an inputted altitude reading, rather, barometric readings.

I figured as much as heat beyond a certain point always equates to loss of efficiency, but the engine itself will create more heat than the ambient air, so the only effect the ambient air may have on the engine is cooling properties (I have no clue how they cool these motors, if at all).

Again, this number can not be calculated with the given data.

Sorry, I actually work for this manufacturer of dyno. While yes, the technical calculation for power is torque based, its lb-ft. we use this number to calculate HP, then using RPM, we calculate given ft-lb torque.

This happens way more often than it should. There are a whole bunch of these kind of videos on YouTube. One of my favorites is when this guy steps on a drum spinning at about 80mph during a run and it just rips his legs out from under him.

This is also a very good point however, the altitude plays no effect into the correction factors as the dyno hardware reads temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure for the correction factors and cannot be adjusted to prevent number tampering.

I would not be willing to trust the torque number as the way these dynos produce a torque number is a mathematical algorithm based on the HP output and the engine RPM. These guys are using a tool known as an optical RPM sensor to grab RPMs off of the rear wheel. It is visible on the magnetic stand covering the center…

If it's a secret military project then how can we know about it???

Zombies.

: to be unable to find (something or someone)

I fucked myself twice yesterday its quite overrated, but at least I didn't get a dick stuck up my ass...

but on an overall scheme it's minor. It's not like its a $1000 option, it might cost them $80 and they might add it in at even as much as $300, but when I am going to look at a $35,000 + new car I'm not going to look at the sticker and go "hrmm, $35,300. Nope, I'm out".