Horsepower Gains

[coolmody]

Anyone notice that the more you drive your car the more HP your car gets?  My R34 Skyline had 998HP then after I raced the GT Championship I ended up with 1012HP!!  Then 2 races after that my car now has 1014HP!

Weird.....

 

[Platinnuum]

That weird, it's like toal opposite for me.It seems the more a races the less and les my HP is.Although I am not a very good driver, and I have taken some nasty spills.My car that I am driving is Mustang Svt Cobra-R. It was 384HP when I brought it, then when I went to upgrade it, it said from 351-371Hp weird.

 

[mine]

You can also increase your HP by giving your car an oil change.  It talks about all that in instruction book.

 

[the_game]

You lose HP when the oil needs to be changed. If you see a drop in HP you should go to GT Auto-Oil Change. If the color of the oil is dull green or brown, change it. You'll get anywhere from 5 HP (low-powered cars) to 50+ HP (racers and highly modded cars) back.

 

[Summoner]

My Escudo is funny, it was upto 1881 HP at one time.  But now it stays at 1843, no matter how many oil changes I get for it.  Will the engines deteriorate if you run em hard or don't change the oil for a while?

 

[AltF8]

Yes, the engines basically wear out.  They wanted people to become more personal with their cars, taking care of them and such.  They mentioned that after a long while, you are better off buying a new car and selling the old to get the HP back.

The initial increase of horsepower is due to the 'break-in' period.

 

[Supra897]

Hmm with my Toyota GT1 I had 1122hp(I changed the oil frequently too), but after about 500 miles of racing it dropped to 1099hp.

 

[AltF8]

Yep, that would be the car's engine wearing out.

I think it will drop something like 5% of the total max horsepower eventually.