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Question regarding BoP

Discussion in 'Chit Chat Room' started by BjoernH, May 24, 2017.

  1. BjoernH

    BjoernH Gamer

    Good day all.

    If you have a balance of performance added to your car like this: 0Kg/20%

    1. What does the 20% mean?
    2. Does this make you slower than having 20Kg added, ie: 20Kg/0%

    Thanks in advance,
    Bjoern
     

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  3. Minolin

    Minolin Staff Member KS Dev Team

    Your restrictor is set to 20%, which means your engine gets less air intake and therefore produces less power.
    100% means you still get some air, so it's only 100% of the restricting capability.

    Pretty sure the practical result will widely vary with different cars and engines. What I've seen so far on sports and super cars 20% will net around 0.3 or 0.4 seconds per average lap (~2 mins). It's quite subtle.
    Increasing the restrictor to around 50% feels more or less linear, values above might be more severe. Values above 70% suddenly make several seconds difference and also make the cars very little competative, but it's a matter of what you want to balance (different cars or different driver levels).

    Hard to tell, depends on the car used. I'd guess 20kg mean more to a Formula 3 car, while 20% restrictor are worse for street legal cars.
     
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  4. Poguinhas

    Poguinhas Alien

    I've seen a GT driver once saying that 40Kg will be barely noticeable, but reducing the restrictor diameter by a milimeter makes you just want to go home.
    Not sure how much would be a milimeter in AC, and that also varies from car to car. In my opinion the impact of restrictor vs ballast depends on the car and track.
    When top speed is more important, the restrictor will have a bigger impact, and the opposite will happen when cornering is involved. Also on lighter cars the effect of ballast will be increased.
     
  5. BjoernH

    BjoernH Gamer

    Thanks for the replies. I ran some tests at Monza in the Porsche 911 GT3 R and found that with the 20% restriction I was running 0.6 sec slower than with 20 Kg weight.
     
  6. Aristotelis

    Aristotelis Will it drift? Staff Member KS Dev Team

    It depends a lot on the type of engine (turbo, normal aspirated, high rev, low rev etc) and of course on the track used (power circuit like monza, or momentum circuit)
    Ballast (kg) might not be much noticeable but keep in mind that worsens tyre wear too, so for long races can be an issue.
    Restrictor on the other hand, might make the engine lose max power, but doesn't effect much mid/low revs, so for a big displacement big torque engine, you need a high % restrictor to have some effect... Still, as a rule (VERY GENERIC) of thumb, a 100% restrictor will make you lose at least 2secs/lap
     
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  7. Poguinhas

    Poguinhas Alien

    Can you tell more precisely how the effect of the restrictor is simulated? I've seen somewhere that it can make you gain power on lower revs while losing max power. Also how can the percentage be interpreted?
     
  8. Aristotelis

    Aristotelis Will it drift? Staff Member KS Dev Team

    It tries to simulate what happens in a real engine. It means that the loss of power gets more and more important as the revs raise because it restricts intake air.
    So what happens is that at lower to mid revs, even with a restrictor, the air that goes in the engine is enough to give fuel and have the best possible outcome. But as revs go higher, the air going in, is restricted and becomes less than ideal (from the original engine configuration). This means that you must inject less fuel and as such you get less power.
    There is no way to gain more power on lower revs with a restrictor in AC. In real life, the engineers might decide for a different ECU programming or maybe camshaft (if regulation permits it) that sacrifices top power (since it is restricted after all) for more low/mid power. But that is a specific design choice, not a result of solely the restrictor application.
    A higher percentage means a smaller intake opening (a smaller restrictor).
     
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