Strange Specifications

[Greycap]

I'll gladly correct you. 950 bhp is what the F1 cars put out easily at the end of the three litre V10 era in 2006, 1000+ bhp was rumoured at the special engines Honda brought to their home GP in Suzuka. The current 2.4 litre V8 engines are producing something around 750 bhp.

480 (I guess you meant it) to 500 bhp would be just a bad joke, even the GP2 class cars have around 600 bhp.

 

[Metar]

Another Strange specification is the ridiculous amousts of power they give the F1 in GT4 F1s do not have those levels of power in real life usually 280-500hp I think correct me if im wrong not 800+ that makes it way to fast.

280-500HP? They reached those figures back in the early '60s. '67 cars reached around 400-500HP. Turbo-era cars (mid-'80s) developed around 1000HP in qualifying trim.

Now, here's more recently. The '01 car for Williams-BMW, the FW23, had an engine developing an ass-whopping 840HP. Three years later cars touched 950HP, perhaps even more.

Now, it's true than the '07 stock of cars produces around 750HP, but that's due to new, smaller engines. And GT4 came out before those regulations.

EDIT: Tree'ed.

The current 2.4 litre engines are producing something around 750 bhp.

ToyotaF1's RVX-07 engine, said to be the weakest on the field, puts out 740HP. Honda apparently puts out 770HP 👍

 

[Greycap]

Turbo-era cars (mid-'80s) developed around 1000HP in qualifying trim.

As unbelievable as it sounds, even that is a gross underestimation... the Honda V6 was the most powerful of those beasts and it put out closer to 1300 bhp in qualification trim with the "rocket fuel" they were using at the time. And that's from a 1.5 litre engine.

 

[PeterJB]

I've noticed this with alot of the Japanese cars, for example, in arcade mode, all the R32,R33, and R34 Nissan Skylines, Honda NSX's, Lancer Evo's, Imprezas and Nissan Z's all say 276BHP, but in GT Mode the can have anywhere from up to 60 more BHP than that, and don't get me started on the LMP's and the Group C Cars!

 

[Metar]

As unbelievable as it sounds, even that is a gross underestimation... the Honda V6 was the most powerful of those beasts and it put out closer to 1300 bhp in qualification trim with the "rocket fuel" they were using at the time. And that's from a 1.5 litre engine.

The very late Williams/Honda V6 supposedly even reached 1500HP. But didn't the FIA ban exotic fuels ever since the mid'70s?

But 1000HP is the safer thing to say...

 

[Greycap]

I've noticed this with alot of the Japanese cars, for example, in arcade mode, all the R32,R33, and R34 Nissan Skylines, Honda NSX's, Lancer Evo's, Imprezas and Nissan Z's all say 276BHP, but in GT Mode the can have anywhere from up to 60 more BHP than that.

That's not strange specifications, it's the Japanese "gentleman agreement" that no car was to have over 280 bhp. So, the showroom shows you that. In reality the cars had a lot more, and the garage view shows you that. It's like in real life, you buy a car that has been said to have 280 bhp but seems to have 330+ bhp when you dyno it.

Metar - The "rocket fuel" was at its finest in the eighties, that stuff was so stark that the ones handling it had to wear glasses protecting their eyes from the fumes, not to mention something to prevent them from inhaling them. The most bizarre thing I've heard about those fuels is that the fuel system had to be drained immediately after a race or there would have been no fuel system in the following morning... talk about some serious liquid there!

 

[Renisis Power]

OMG I fell so stupid now thanks for telling me so I dont look stupid later on I do think that is too much power for those little go kart sized machines you would think they would do 0-60 in like 0.9-1 secs being as lightweight as they are with 780+ hp. I know gearing affects it but they are geard for acceleration and top out at like 200-215MPH right?

 

[Greycap]

The 0-100 (kilometers per hour values as I'm Finnish, 0-62 in mph) time is around two seconds, there isn't enough grip to accelerate faster in the first gears but the 0-200 (0-124) time is striking, around four seconds as the car can use its full power to move the virtually non-existant weight. They usually top out at around the speeds you mention, reaching that speed in about ten seconds.

 

[Metar]

The 0-100 (kilometers per hour values as I'm Finnish, 0-62 in mph) time is around two seconds, there isn't enough grip to accelerate faster in the first gears but the 0-200 (0-124) time is striking, around four seconds as the car can use its full power to move the virtually non-existant weight. They usually top out at around the speeds you mention, reaching that speed in about ten seconds.

0-300(km/h)-0 time for an average F1 car is around 6 seconds.

 

[Greycap]

Hell no, definitely not possible. That would take the acceleration of a Top Fuel dragster and the deceleration of hitting a brick wall! Sounds like a believable 0-200-0 time to me, but not 0-300-0.

 

[Renisis Power]

Holy crap, damn I love F1 cars they are monsters!. I wonder if Mazda ever used a rotary engined car in F1. I should go check that out. Oh yeah about the acceleration thing I forgot to factor tire grip levels in the equation

 

[Metar]

Could be my mind mixing up MPH/KmH units, and converting them on top

After a check, yes. 0-200-0 was the speed. In Km/H.

Holy crap, damn I love F1 cars they are monsters!. I wonder if Mazda ever used a rotary engined car in F1. I should go check that out. Oh yeah about the acceleration thing I forgot to factor tire grip levels in the equation

Mazda, AFAIK, never actually entered F1. But, should they, rotary engines aren't allowed - strictly 90-degree V8s measuring 2.4 litres of displacement.

 

[Renisis Power]

Mazda, AFAIK, never actually entered F1. But, should they, rotary engines aren't allowed - strictly 90-degree V8s measuring 2.4 litres of displacement.[/QUOTE]

They should enter F1 and the F1 rules should be changed too let Rotors enter, what a bummer. The rotary engine was banned in the Le Mans 24hour, and the Grand AM Rolex because of its unfair balance and power/weight ratio. The RX7 has won more IMSA events than any other production car as well.

 

[Green_Flag]

It is a game you can't go by what the game says. I ca tell from my experience that the Mustang GT doesn't handle anything like a real one does.