Weight balance question

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Iriquois
Im surprised this hasnt been asked before. Now, i havent enough time to get around to this since ive been recently busy, so I was wondering someone would test it out or already have the answer to this: Does increasing weight on your car(in-game) give your car a higher top speed? And a faster acceleration for reduced weight?; the reason i ask is because in the weight ballast info it doesnt mention its influence on speed or accel. because in real-life it would.
 
Yes it does. When I'm tuning a car for drag racing and I add balast to the rear of the car with a RWD, the launch is different. More weight on the rear axel is less wheel spin with a RWD car. But you will also notice that over a bigger distance you will be slower because you have more weight to drag along with.

If the car weights more it will affect topspeed in a negative way. But normal with acceleration it's the same, unless ther is not enough weight on the drivin axel, you will get to much weelspin. You haven't got enough grip. So you add weight on the driven axel. Or by adding a spoiler for downforce or thru ballast.
 
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brutten87
Yes it does. When I'm tuning a car for drag racing and I add balast to the rear of the car with a RWD, the launch is different. More weight on the rear axel is less wheel spin with a RWD car. But you will also notice that over a bigger distance you will be slower because you have more weight to drag along with.

If the car weights more it will affect topspeed in a negative way. But normal with acceleration it's the same, unless ther is not enough weight on the drivin axel, you will get to much weelspin. You haven't got enough grip. So you add weight on the driven axel. Or by adding a spoiler for downforce or thru ballast.
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Ok thanks, this was the kind of answer i was looking for. 👍
 
More weight requires more power to get to a higher top speed.
If you add ballast theres noway you can achieve a higher top speed, unless youre going downill.

Adding ballast to the rear wheels helps with traction a tiny bit. Increasing ballast will decrease rate of acceleration just because the car has to push/pull more wieght. Its Logical to me.
 
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