Useage of the turbo? (Lotus 98T@Silverstone67)

When I lately drove online with the Lotus 98T at Silverstone 1967, I noticed how I was outdriven like I'm having a different, slower car. Well, most of the time I simply use default setup (my fault) and I didn't notice about the turbo being set to 60% by default.

My first thought was "why not having it 100% all the time" - this at least increased my lap times by 5 seconds. When the engine blew after 2 laps, I most probably had the answer, why you don't use it 100% all the time (aside the fuel useage).

So my question is, did they really always adjust the turbo setting during a race? And if so, what are the recommendeations for the Lotus 98T at Silverstone 1967. You use 60% most of the time but set it to 100% for the long straight (Hangar straigth)? Then you set it back again? This sounds pretty annoying and like a big hassle while also having to use the H6 shifter gear. Sounds like I need a 3rd arm...

Aside that, if I'm right, the Porsche 962 has the turbo set to 100% all the time, but I never broke the engine with this car. Maybe it can't be compard though. A friend of mine said, that the Lotus had 1.5l engine with 1200+ hp which is a bit insane.

Anyway, hints on the useage of the Lotus 98T turbo are very welcome ;-)

 

I think you can change engine limiter or whatever its called to more than 100 on Lotus 98T, maybe try that? Less than 100 engine and more turbo? I have no clue but might work.

 

No, you cannot compare the turbo on those two cars. The turbo system on 962 is designed to run at full boost at all times, they only reduce it if ever there is a need of conserving fuel. Whereas the 98T's full boost functionality is only used for one or two laps at most in quali trim and not for running it in a race situation. You can drive the 98T at 80% boost all day long without blowing it up, without losing much pace. Even 90 is manageable if you are careful enough. You can map ctrl+0/ctrl+8 via joy2key or xpadder to any of the free buttons on your wheel if you want to use 100% boost for overtaking or for straights. Doesn't the shifter thingy of a G25 have a bunch of buttons on it, those could be ideal for you to change boost while driving and shifting.

 

Thanks for the input. So it's not like changing it all the time. More like leaving it at 80% and only adjust it to overtake somebody. Yes, the G25 has quite some buttons, but they're all on the shifter console. It would be more ideal on the wheel - but I use those to look left/right. Sure, I could use TrackIR instead, but for whatever reason, I don't like TrackIr on AC. It makes me almost dizzy and I prefer to only use TrackIR for flight sims therefor. But I suppose I'll get used to the buttons on the shifter console. Too bad the d-pad doesn't seem to be useable for assignements though. Those would be the most ideal buttons IMO.

 

80% with the limiter on 108 still strugles the engine.

I personally like to change gears on 12k rpm, so, I use 108 limiter always. When you change before this, something like 11k rpm, the turbo pressure will down too much and you will suffer more with turbo lag.

 

Seconded exactly.

Sorry for off-topic : What are your favorite flight sims those days ?

 

No problem and sorry for staying off-topic ;-) There aren't that many flight sims out there.... I'm using DCS, mainly the Huey UH-1H chopper. I have some other modules but they're pretty complicated IMO and it's difficult if you don't fly it regulary. That's why my focus stayed on the Huey. DCS has quite some parallels to AC - sim with a great core, but lack of "game". You have many planes (if you buy all the modules) but only few playgrounds (maps) and many planes have no campaign/no missions. So if you're not into multiplayer, then it's "just flying around for yourself"....like in AC doing hotlaps for yourself. They e.g. just released the Spitfire which might be interesting, but no campaign yet (shall be in the final version though). You can send me a PM if you don't have DCS and if you need more information. I didn't play DCS since the release of the AC Porsche Packs though ;-)

Edit: BTW, I already thought I'm the only having troubles with TrackIR in AC.

Back to topic:

Well, using 80% with the limiter at 100 works fine for the engine, but I'm losing too much time. I lost 2 seconds compared to the laps where I used 80% turbo (100 limiter) but increased the turbo to 100% on Hangar straight. But doing so resulted in a blown engine after 4 laps. With that said, I still have no idea how to be fast in the Lotus 98T w/o blowing the engine all the time. End of the day, I simply took the Lotus 25 instead of the 98T for some nice laps at Silverstone ;-)