What's your highest power to weight ratio?

[fsendventd]

Mine is 1.07:1 (hp:kg). Carbon fiber for the win. In game, I believe Automation reports it as about 0.741:1 (kW/kg).

[hector_mg24]

Mine is 1.217. It's from a 2800 hp 12.0 V16 Twinturbo in a sedan weighing 2300kg.

[fsendventd]

Originally posted by hector_mg24:

Mine is 1.217. It's from a 2800 hp 12.0 V16 Twinturbo in a sedan weighing 2300kg.

...wow. Just.... wow. What's the wheelspin? I was able to achieve mine with an 8.2 liter twin-turbo V10 that puts out just shy of 1600 horsepower (1597 to be exact), in a racecar that weighs 1486 kg.

[Arya]

Approx 0.8 to 1 :3

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1712615582

For the last few weeks I've just been finding my feet and learning how to engineer a car. I haven't felt confident enough to try a sports car until today, so I don't have much to compete with. I built a little prototype from bits of existing projects to try and hash-out some ideas, like a technology demonstrator. And that's what I'm showing off here.

It has a 2.2 litre R5 turbo from a van. It's chassis and drivetrain comes from a little 1980s station wagon. And it's got an aero kit that scares children. It makes 750 horsepower at 8500 RPM and revs to 9000 RPM. Carbon panels keep the weight down to 850 KGs while the aero totals ~900 KGs at 300 KPH. It does 0-100 in about three seconds in BeamNG.

And it taught me so much. How to deal with wheelspin, the maximum tyre width/size before diminishing returns, the effects of tyre profiles, aero, how carbon brakes behave... Just fantastic.

[fsendventd]

Originally posted by Wolfey:

Approx 0.8 to 1 :3

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1712615582

For the last few weeks I've just been finding my feet and learning how to engineer a car. I haven't felt confident enough to try a sports car until today, so I don't have much to compete with. I built a little prototype from bits of existing projects to try and hash-out some ideas, like a technology demonstrator. And that's what I'm showing off here.

It has a 2.2 litre R5 turbo from a van. It's chassis and drivetrain comes from a little 1980s station wagon. And it's got an aero kit that scares children. It makes 750 horsepower at 8500 RPM and revs to 9000 RPM. Carbon panels keep the weight down to 850 KGs while the aero totals ~900 KGs at 300 KPH. It does 0-100 in about three seconds in BeamNG.

And it taught me so much. How to deal with wheelspin, the maximum tyre width/size before diminishing returns, the effects of tyre profiles, aero, how carbon brakes behave... Just fantastic.

0-100 KPH, I take it? Mine can do that in.... 1.75-1.8 seconds. And the 1/4 mile time is 7.6. I am on the drag strip in Beam, though. It's sticky. On a normal road it mostly just spins the tires.

[Arya]

Originally posted by fsendventd:

0-100 KPH, I take it? Mine can do that in.... 1.75-1.8 seconds. And the 1/4 mile time is 7.6. I am on the drag strip in Beam, though. It's sticky. On a normal road it mostly just spins the tires.

Yes. I haven't drag raced it yet; I used the runway at the automation test track. As it's a heavily turbocharged AWD car, I'm not sure how much benefit I'll actually get from a drag strip. On a race track it does accelerate well, there's slight wheelspin at 100% throttle but it's very managable. That was the whole reason I built it; to learn how to make a sports car drivable.

[Boudewijn]

I have a quality spam meme drag pickup thing.
It has a 15.4L V12 making 3922hp. The car weighs 1732kg
Thats 2.26 hp/kg.
Yes this thing is really stupid.
I think it does a 7.0 1/4 mile in beamng.

EDIT: just realised I have another stupidly powerful car.
It uses this body: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1701732475
This body can fit huge engines.
I put a 4567hp 19.7L V16 in the 1777kg car, thats 2.57hp/kg