Update Speculation thread

I thought the same. Maybe it's because they are using the original chassis and just fill the tunnel for the drive shaft. It's the best they can do.
Another thing I noticed is that there are 3 electric motors: one in the front and two in the back. The combination of a small battery and three motors seems a bit unrealistic. The smaller a battery, the smaller is its max. power output.
But in general it is a good thing to implement electric cars

 

How certain you are that those are all batteries included?

Also they can opt to use some higher efficiency battery type, which is still at prototype stage.

 

I've been waiting for "It's Beamverse so that might even be a prototypical proton linear accelerator for all we know"-kind of responses...

 

As we all have been waiting comments about missing blinkers... xD

 

Except the binkers were indeed wrong and pointing it out was the right thing to do.

Justifying anything with implausible explainations is not. Not when it comes to a game that strives for realism, at least.

 

Yeah, there is limits with artistic freedom and surely even I except them to have correct weight for given capacity of battery as well as correct volume that all affects handling too. However I also wish futuristic prototype too.

 

So, why don't we put a fusion reactor in there?

 

I think they did try something like that with fission plant at 60's, somehow it did not work out the best way possible and never entered to testing stages, but Russians did have a plane carrying operational reactor as well. Today Lockheed of course has tiny Fusion plants in development, but somehow I remain skeptical of those taking off for crash related reasons alone.

Russians apparently have nuclear powered missile though, so maybe people have still not learned about fault tolerance.

 

I hope the sbr4 gets a flat 6, because the 200mph twin turbo version having a four cylinder is unrealistic

 

What?

400hp?


I need a bigger turbo.

 

"SBR4 uses a 2.5L I4"
The SBR4 don't use a F6 engine ???

 

No, a very potent flat-four.

 

so it's still a F4, and not a boring I4 like said DiamondBack ?

 

There is a typo, 2.5L F4 I think.

With performance block 2 and S2 turbos, adjustable ECU, I see 531hp from 2.0 F4 of SBR4, which is already at limit with what any race tires in game can manage.

Tires of modern cars must be quite good to be able to handle such power that many modern cars put out, but for example some Ferrari has 295-305 or something like that tires, people are putting 355 wide tires in those https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/458-tire-size.560890/

edit: He was Ninja as always
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For example here it states Tire Size (F/R): 315x680” 325x705” for 600hp RWD car:
http://www.rferrimotorsport.com/cars-specs/

SBR4 hillclimb has over 810hp and 225 / 255 tires, it has AWD and those usually are setup to run same width tires front and back as AWD itself is prone to understeer.

It just makes no sense to have 225 fronts with that power, AWD and front downforce.

R32 Godzilla did run 265 wide tires front and back.

For some reason tire sizes and tire width between front and rear is not quite similar to what I have seen IRL data, not sure why, but if engine power levels are being discussed, then I think we need to consider tire width to weight and engine power ratio discussion too.

 

The most powerful 4 cylinder is from a Mercedes with 335hp... so
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sbr4 has 2.0 and 2.5 litre engInes

 

Ford Focus RS 2.3l 4cyl 349HP
maybe not the most powerfull production 4cyl but better

 

*ahem*

(I know it's not a production car but still...)