When choosing a car would it be possilbe to display a power/torque graph of the engine - Like a LFS Dyno test or something!

Nothing essential but would be pretty cool I think!

What like in Need for Speed?

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When choosing a car would it be possilbe to display a power/torque graph of the engine - Like a LFS Dyno test or something!

Nothing essential but would be pretty cool I think!

+1, although it's been mentioned a number of times.

Yes so when your testing your gearing you can hop right to the dyno and do it rather then finding the long straight away to see if you have enough gear and your not maxing it out and not creating power. I still think the whole gearing aspect as far as physics it still has it's flaws. I have a 95 civic ex with a jdm b18c with 8 lbs of boost and i use the same gearing and it's off by a long shot. I'm also talking about the boost reaction and the cars over all preformance. In my car on the highway doing 55mph and smash the gas it'll take a breif second to get to 120mph, in the game it seems way off. So yes I think this is a must have

Have you tried Bob's Gear Ratio Calculator? It uses fairly close estimates of the torque and power curves, and you can put in whatever gear ratios you want to see how they'll work.

But once you know the torque curve of the engine you'll never need anything to do with a dyno. Just overlay torque curves multiplied by the gear ratio (basically), and you can see everything. Then you need to overlay a drag curve, to find what you're top speed is.

But, the best way is still to get out there. Set the gearing for the end of the longest straight at roughly peak power, and the two lowest gears for good starts and the slowest corner. Then space the others evenly (pr perhaps tweak the evenness to suit particular corners if you think it'll gain you time).

There's just no need for a dyno no matter how thick you are.

This is what Tristan is talking about, that is just one old graph from my car but I think Bob could implement drag curve into gear ratio calculator too...

I'll consider it. GRC does provide some dyno graphs but they do not match up perfectly with LFS. They should be closer to LFS curves than real life curves though. My current project is hoping to improve matters, although I've yet to put any work into the torque curve generation you can check out the public preview here.

You can use outguage to determine the power and torque (with wind resistance factored in and everything).