Huge surprises since last time all around for me. I hoped, by concentrating on power, to make it somewhere into the middle of the pack of the turbos and ended up with the most powerful engine. OK, Strop going for that beautiful Skyline made it possible for sure and just slightly over that great I6T, but still. Then the results, I was secretly hoping for 1-3 points on that track, 5 if it's going really well. 8th place and 13 points, seriously?
VicVictory wrote:Making a car light isn't my problem. Making it powerful is.
Of course, I think we'll see later on that the Kaminari is one of the cheapest cars in the competition. I just gave up with a ton of money left because I couldn't figure out what to spend it on that would give any significant gains. Like, I was at the point where I had to burn $3k just to get 3 HP.
Admittedly I've still have a lot to learn about the interconnections of everything but I realized, since last ATTC mostly: The quality sliders advantage isn't about the results they give directly. It is the fact that they open up huge possibilities on all engine sliders everywhere else. Oh, and the importance of the fuel/air mixture slider, especially for turbos.
nialloftara wrote:Wow, no wonder I am near the back. I have no where near enough downforce or cornering in my car.
Me too. Getting some grasp on the stuff in the trim section is the next goal, if I find the time. The other thing is I still can't befriend the idea of using more than one lip and, only perhaps, 2 spoilers built into one double bladed. While still not understanding things properly I've got the impression this car could use more front downforce though, I didn't even use the full range of the single rear spoiler because it made the car slower on Green Hell, the (only) test track I used to get somewhat worth of a setup.
Edit: I'm somewhat missing a simple lip or Gurney flap to place on the back of the car.
trackpaduser wrote:At one point during the design process my car had 4 seats.
Mine actually has, for some reason I could only choose 4 or 5 seats with this body. On some options the automation designers had clearly no race cars in mind, yet.
trackpaduser wrote:In general, negative quality doesn't bring much. The price difference isn't that great for the performance difference so I try to stay away from it.
Same here. The only exceptions to note are body and interior that additionally save weight with mostly only a negative effect on luxury and prestige, something I don't look for in a race car.
strop wrote:Yeah it overlaps a bit. I'm assuming larger air intercoolers are open at smaller displacements because air has much less resistance than water.
My guess is since heat transfer onto air is less efficient than water the design decision was that engines profit earlier, aka at a lower air intake mass, from a larger air cooler than water cooler. That as well would mean the largest air coolers are insufficient earlier than the largest water coolers for really big engines, given they are not large enough to provide enough cooling for any possible engine anyway.
Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:08 pm 
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Oh well, live and learn!
