Anyone else notice the numbers for speed accel ect., are not accurate? They may be a kinda reference but are not true. My friend and I where running a class lobby, he had his Shelby cobra, with an 8.8 accel, I had my C2 vette with a 9.2 accel. He ran away from me when we accelerated. We do a lot of tuning and he also said the benchmark numbers are not accurate either. The only thing I noticed with this is my 64 impala shows .94 g or something like that for stock. Noway it pulls those gs on stock tires and suspension. I also noticed that his cobra had much lower overall performance numbers for speed accel ect, than my Daytona but shows the same P.I. Your thoughts?
Numbers aren’t everything.
The benchmarks are only an estimation and the actual values will ultimately depend on the track.
With regards to the “lower performance numbers but same PI” - are you saying that every number (speed, handling, accel, launch and brakes) was lower than yours at the same PI? If so, that would seem odd.
I wouldn’t be surprised if your friend had lower values for some numbers (speed, accel) but higher numbers in other categories (handling, braking).
Maybe its tires i think the acceleration figure assumes you have the same straight line grip as you add engine parts and lose weight.
launch is based on an untuned transmission.
and the top speed and acceleration are very connected. for example a car with a low top speed number and high acceleration number may not accellerate quickly at all. sam as a car with a high top speed number and lower accelleration number ay not be slow.
do this.
take a tiny car with a limited transmission and dump a butt load of power into it. but don’t touch the transmission. the accelleration and launch will improve but the top speed won’t move much. then find a car with a huge top speed number and upgrade it until the acceleration numbers of the 2 cars match.
then drag race them.
the one with the high top speed stat wins.
accelleration is some how relative or derived from the top speed stat. almost like the accelleration is more of a figure of how long it takes that car to reach it’s own top speed. it doesn’t always mean an 8.8 accel car will beat an 8.6 accel car.
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I’ve done experiments with this before like averaging the 3 ratings (top speed,accel and launch) and finding cars with the same average and i got varied results. For the most part they were even but some cars were just out and out faster. So that’s where things get more complicated than what the ratings show like gear ratios, wind resistance, tire pressure, weight balance etc. All true factors in real life. Look at any type of racing where cars are technically equal in stats but for various reasons perform differently. The only fair challenge in this game would be to use the same cars, but even then just like real life, there can only be one winner.
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tire and transmission settings. the ratings are for stock upgrades not for fine tuning. you can trade speed for acel with upgraded trannys.
Weight and drivetrain would be a big factor too.
If one car is getting more speed in the corners due to better handling its going to have a jump on acceleration regardless of a higher acc rating.
As for benchmark stats my C class Evo is
0-60 4.236s
0-100 12.073s
top speed 150.0 mph
then my Celica has
0-60 5.567s
0-100 13.646s
top speed 145.6 mph
Yet the celica laps on average 3secs quicker!
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