Kart is 512pp??? Pp all wrong??

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Drex81
So can the kart actually keep up with on a track? Sounds silly? Also why is every single pp wrong on every car! They tweaked the system but couldn't auto update our garages??? Very annoying trying to pick a car when the pp isnt showing the correct number!
 
The Kart is very light, which is why it has a high PP, on a tight track it can probably compete with cars of that PP because it can corner so fast.
 
Bigbazz
The Kart is very light, which is why it has a high PP, on a tight track it can probably compete with cars of that PP because it can corner so fast.
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Also, the engine is mid-mounted, which equals a much better power-to-weight ratio over cars like an Impreza, as the power channeled to the wheel takes less time to travel on a MR vehicle. But as you said, weight also plays an issue.
 
engine position has nothing to do with power to weight ratio and time of power transfer.....less drive-train power loss maybe but that's it.

I don't see how it has so high pp either, because if you take tire out of equation (which the pp system now does), it has decent mechanical grip but nothing out of the world, combined with the low top speed and slow-ish acceleration, it really shouldn't be that high.
 
Put it this way, I can lap Autumn Ring Mini much faster in the Kart than I can in my Ford GT Spec II Test Car. The kart can take almost any corner flat out and is easy to control, the Ford, however, wants to spin all the time and has a lot of trouble putting the power down.

Of course, the kart (like everything else in GT5) is only effective on some tracks and not others; you can't expect it to keep up with other 512pp cars at, say, Indy or Daytona, for example.
 
Sadly the Kart doesn't have go faster stickers or a big fat wing... that would help the PP.
It then could keep up on Daytona.

It's a Kart... use Logic.
 
ZDUPH
Also, the engine is mid-mounted, which equals a much better power-to-weight ratio over cars like an Impreza, as the power channeled to the wheel takes less time to travel on a MR vehicle. But as you said, weight also plays an issue.
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i honestly hope you are joking... less time to travel to the wheels? c'mon :crazy:
 
xzaero
i honestly hope you are joking... less time to travel to the wheels? c'mon :crazy:
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Think he's trying to refer to drivetrain power loss from 4WD, and possibly distracted by 4wd cars sometimes being quicker off the line.

OT, I'm not sure PP takes enough account of aero downforce either...but it doesn't seem bad in the 'middle' range of normal cars, just out with very light or very high downforce cars.
 
ZDUPH
Also, the engine is mid-mounted, which equals a much better power-to-weight ratio over cars like an Impreza, as the power channeled to the wheel takes less time to travel on a MR vehicle. But as you said, weight also plays an issue.
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Wow. :dunce:
 
It's true, the kart is one of several cars I see that exploits some flaws in the PP system. A 'perfect' PP system would have continually floating numbers and would also take the track configuration into account. But that's asking for WAY too much. Generally speaking, it works pretty well. But there are a few oddballs like the kart that just don't factor in properly.
 
jjaisli
It's true, the kart is one of several cars I see that exploits some flaws in the PP system. A 'perfect' PP system would have continually floating numbers and would also take the track configuration into account. But that's asking for WAY too much. Generally speaking, it works pretty well. But there are a few oddballs like the kart that just don't factor in properly.
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This is the most glaring flaw, in my opinion. More downforce is not always a good thing.
 
ZDUPH
Also, the engine is mid-mounted, which equals a much better power-to-weight ratio over cars like an Impreza, as the power channeled to the wheel takes less time to travel on a MR vehicle. But as you said, weight also plays an issue.
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Power to weight is a figure taken from the cars power and the cars weight, not the drivetrain. I think you must mean either drive train loss, a 4wd car loses more power through the drivetrain an a 2wd car or you meant that a mid engined car has a more balanced weigh distribution, which they generally do.
 

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