I Have Damaged 2 Engines.

[Famine]

jaxmkii - Please stop making one post after another.

Use the "Edit" button in the lower right corner of you post to add further points. Multiple consecutive posts are frowned upon severely by members and moderators alike.

Oh and TIG Welding ("Tungsten") is about as new as the horseless carriage.

 

[Bilgewater]

So can anyone finally answer whether or not the horsepower that can be lost reaches a minimum point (eg. you start with 500 hp and it goes down to 469 hp, but you don't lose any more than that) or does it keep going down, lower and lower?

Hard to confirm something that hasn't happened, but I can tell you a few things about the horsepower of the cars.

If you buy a car with a lot of miles from the used car lot and change the oil, it'll have a certain horsepower. Win the same car and it will have exactly the same amount of horsepower that the used car with the oil change has. Change the oil on the new car and the horsepower will increase, but will eventually lose power once you've put a lot of miles on them.

F1 cars don't lose horsepower at all despite the lack of an oil change. They will always put out 904 ps.

Although I've put a lot of my GT4 cars through some major trauma, none of them have lost more power after an oil change than a used car with an oil change will produce.

Take that for what it's worth, but my opinion is that engine wear is a factor up to a point, and then it is not a factor. The same as in GT3.

 

[Majarvis]

Hard to confirm something that hasn't happened, but I can tell you a few things about the horsepower of the cars.

If you buy a car with a lot of miles from the used car lot and change the oil, it'll have a certain horsepower. Win the same car and it will have exactly the same amount of horsepower that the used car with the oil change has. Change the oil on the new car and the horsepower will increase, but will eventually lose power once you've put a lot of miles on them.

F1 cars don't lose horsepower at all despite the lack of an oil change. They will always put out 904 ps.

Although I've put a lot of my GT4 cars through some major trauma, none of them have lost more power after an oil change than a used car with an oil change will produce.

Take that for what it's worth, but my opinion is that engine wear is a factor up to a point, and then it is not a factor. The same as in GT3.

Thanks for your informative post So F1 cars never lose any power? Interesting indeed

 

[Bilgewater]

I was worried about the F1 cars at first because I couldn't change the oil. But after racing the 15 endurance level races of the F1 challenge, my F1 still produces 904 ps. The same as it did when I won it.

Oh, and the black F1 you win for beating the F1 challenge looks incredible!

 

[Majarvis]

I was worried about the F1 cars at first because I couldn't change the oil. But after racing the 15 endurance level races of the F1 challenge, my F1 still produces 904 ps. The same as it did when I won it.

Oh, and the black F1 you win for beating the F1 challenge looks incredible!

Awesome info, hands on experience posts like that are what I like Can't wait to win the black car!

 

[Bilgewater]

drats! double post!

 

[Izanagi]

I've abstained from posting on GTP for the past 2 months.....not much for me to talk about cuz (1.) i dont feel like getting a bootleg Chinese copy of the game and (2.) i have till the 22nd to wait so i might as well Anyway, on the subject of engine wear and blowouts, i'm very happy that PD kept the engine wear feature in. i wish you could really blow out engines tho....that would make my races absoultly heart-stopping. since i've sat here bored outof my mind reading every post on this thread, i got to thinking.....and i know this is a bit too early.......but it would be absolutly awesome if you could swap engines in game (hopefully in GT5). Swappin B engines from Honda to Honda, drop a K20 into a Lotus Exige, build up a B20 Frankenstein, swap a 3UZ-FE V8 into an Altezza....etc. how much more fun would that be for us tuners! I really hope that the guys at PD read these threads cuz i think that this feature, along with realtime engine blowouts, malfunctions, gear grinds, differential lockups, etc. would create a new level of realism and gaming.

 

[RogsR34UK]

I have pictures of all colours of the F1 cars on my Web site:

http://www.rogs.dial.pipex.com/index.htm.

As far as I can see the percentages for engines are as follows (I just posted more detail in the "Mileage Affects" topic).

Oil change +5%
High Mileage -5%

I am not sure how low the HP can go on a car that is in need of an oil change that you keep running.

 

[Dave A]

That +5% and -5% I think is roughly right, however it over and below the cars stock power so the overall difference is around 10%. Once the Bhp gets to a certain level it stops decreasing.