Googledocs Update - 29/3/12
300 records now in the spreadsheet!!
New or updated records for the following:
- Dodge Viper ACR - 260.7mph (Ugabugaz New Record)
- VW Golf Mk4 RM - 175.5mph
- Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 C5 (non RM) - 251.9mph
- Dodge Viper GTS '02 - 254.5mph
- Nissan Skyline R34 Spec 2 Nur '02 - 234.0mph
- Alfa Romeo GTV 3.0 V2 '01 - 195.5mph
- BMW 120d - 186.8mph
- BMW 330i '05 - 188.9mph
- BMW M Coupe '98 - 195.5mph
- BMW M3 '04 - 206.8mph
- BMW M3 CSL - 211.0mph
- Chevrolet Camaro Iroc Z - 217.0mph
- Chevrolet Camaro SS '00 - 227.0mph
- Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 '90 - 245.6mph
- Citroen Xsara VTR - 160.7mph
- Dodge Viper Team Oreca #51 - 239.1mph
- Ford Focus RS '02 - 191.1mph
- Ford GT '05 - 257.0mph
- Ford Ka - 163.9mph
I couldn't believe how much of a struggle it was to get the Golf to build up any kind of speed, especially given the apparent lack of weight. The acceleration just seemed ridiculously sluggish for a car of this size.
The Oreca Viper is also a bit of an odd one, as I was able to hit over 250mph a while back with the #91 model, so will definitely be checking the settings of these two to see if there's something I've missed, or if there's been another hidden physics change.
(EDIT: No difference in the settings, HP or torque, but the #51 seems to lose all of it once you get past 220mph or so, very odd!)
The Ka was also a real pain in the proverbials, not helped by the fact that I forgot to put the turbo on it during the first speedtest run, meaning it hit the quarter before hitting 100mph! After the turbo was fitted it performed much better than expected, considering it only has 230bhp. Still a relatively slow car but for this power level it does quite well.
The real oddball of this pack was the old 1990 ZR1 'Vette, strange in so much that it is a supercharged car, but the power graph would have you believe it was a turbo.
Generally speaking, the power curve of supercharged cars is a smooth curve, rising and falling in an arc with the revs. The power graph of this car is very similar to that of the HPA cars, with a more distinct "spiking" of power from the middle of the rev range, with seemingly no power before or after it. Now, this may well have been a characteristic of the actual car, although I personally doubt it, but it just seems slightly odd that a supercharger would dump all it's power across a small rev band like this.
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