F1 1984 Mod?

I gave each car the engine from the 88 Ferrari, running 875hp. They all pull out of the stalls and are hauling ass in practice. In fact, they're acting rather nuts.......

joeschmoe wrote:

I gave each car the engine from the 88 Ferrari, running 875hp. They all pull out of the stalls and are hauling ass in practice. In fact, they're acting rather nuts.......

Did you try to drive one? I just put the engine file from the BMW 320 into the Brabham and the car won't shift out of first gear on the track...

I'm renaming the files to match whatever is in the 84 car folder I'm replacing. Are you just dropping the new file into the car folder without renaming it?

you have to rename the file to what ever the .eng file is named in that teams folder, 84_Ferrari_engine.eng, 84_Arrows_engine.eng, 84_McLaren_engine.eng, etc.......
Yeah, I took some laps, as Commodore mentioned the gearbox isn't matched well to the engine, it works....... I think the mod also needs the pogo effect fix.....

Down to 708hp and cars are still working, though some are acting strange.

aaaand ctd'ing after several laps..........

I raised the horsepower on all the engine files with Tom's Engine Builder to approximately their historic level. This gets most of the cars on track, though still have issues with them staying in the stalls at '88 Hockenheim.

However, only the Arrows  car will lap at normal speed. All other stay in first gear around the circuit. Am I overlooking some basic setting somewhere? Maybe in the Player file? I can't explain why the AI cars wont lap at normal speed, though it only happens in this mod. Could it be a wrong setting in the '84 cars HDC file? Somewhere else? Where is pitlane speed defined ?

Is it only this mod where the cars stay in first gear have you set your controller up correctly.
Make a new player and see what happens ?

The SpringkPa looks way too high, thats probably why these cars are bouncing all over the place.......


Tried testing it, but the mod keeps crashing.......... headed for the bin..........

fatguts wrote:

Is it only this mod where the cars stay in first gear have you set your controller up correctly.
Make a new player  and see what happens ?

Yes, only in this mod do the AI stay in first gear. New player is still the same...

joeschmoe wrote:

The SpringkPa looks way too high, thats probably why these cars are bouncing all over the place.......


Tried testing it, but the mod keeps crashing.......... headed for the bin..........

I had hopes I could sort this mod out too, but not so optimistic anymore....

I might put some other car's physics in this thing, its a good looking car, but drives like crap........