"TheOnelectronic" (theoneelectronic)
06/11/2015 at 03:44 • Filed to: None
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"TheOnelectronic" (theoneelectronic)
06/11/2015 at 03:44 • Filed to: None | 3
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But if you tune a 918 to the limit, it goes faster than the road loads. Makes for some very exciting high speed runs.
GhostZ
> TheOnelectronic
06/11/2015 at 03:46 |
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“tune”
I’d for once like a racing game that put realistic limits on tuning. Like, you could stuff a twin turbo LS motor into a civic, but you shouldn’t be able to make a P1 make 30% more power. The tech doesn’t exist.
A twin turbo Mclaren F1? Yeah, sure, that’s possible. A Veyron that makes 1600HP? No.
CRider
> GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 03:48 |
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Unless you could strap rockets to the roof. That would be awesome.
Blondude
> GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 03:50 |
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But you can’t tune the engine on the P1 and the Veyron SS can only reach a little over 1,300 hp already...
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GhostZ
> Blondude
06/11/2015 at 04:29 |
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So then what’s up with the 918?
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Blondude
> GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 04:46 |
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You can do a few upgrades to it and you can twin turbo it (which, being a hybrid, makes the torque curve look hilariously screwy). I haven’t tried fully upgrading it yet.
Krieger (@FSKrieger22)
> TheOnelectronic
06/11/2015 at 04:47 |
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This happens with the end-game cars in Need for Speed: Rivals all the time. Welcome to the club! :|
samssun
> GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 05:38 |
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Why couldn’t the Veyron make 1600hp? It’s possible the stock turbos would be restrictive, but the standard 1000hp/1200hp are basically four single-turbo 2.0 4 cylinders making 250/300hp, but with scavenging and balance benefits.
400hp from a 2.0 would need a turbo bigger than it could quickly spool, but it’s not too difficult, and since you have 4 of them working together you’d have a slightly peakier curve but still massive torque at any rpm.
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samssun
> TheOnelectronic
06/11/2015 at 05:40 |
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I had to re-read “faster than the road loads” a few times. Thought you were saying the car exceeded some (weight/force) load characteristic of the road. Making the car break the pavement when the road dips or something.
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TheOnelectronic
> GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 12:43 |
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Well, to some extent there are things you can do that aren't practical on a road car. That gives some overhead.
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GhostZ
> samssun
06/11/2015 at 15:24 |
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Heat. It could produce that power, but the heat would destroy the car. It’s already at the absolute limit for cooling for that body design. You’d have to significantly compromise the aerodynamics to upgrade the radiators and heat exchangers. Worse yet, all that hot radiator fluid has to be carried away from the engine to inefficient locations before it can be cooled down, since there is a minimal amount of space to fit them in the front.
That’s why all the 1200HP cars out there are using V cylinders (with more surface area per cylinder for cooling) instead of W, AND they’re usually front-mounted. There just simply lacks the space in a mid-engined design to effectively cool an engine that produces that much power for any extended period of time. You’d have the same problem if you made a twin turbo corvette with 1200 HP and ran it for longer than a quarter mile at a time.
Also, revs, don’t forget those.
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samssun
> GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 20:58 |
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I would expect a car as tech-heavy as the Veyron to have all kinds of monitoring that would pull boost/timing/throttle once you exceeded its parameters. Not saying that’s ideal, but since obscene power levels aren’t something you apply constantly, I’d hope it could put out bursts of 1600hp for a significant fraction of the time it can sustain 1000hp.
Assuming you didn’t start shredding gears and diffs, the combo of 1600hp, AWD, and 4000lbs should be good for what, mid-8 second 1/4?