Question about engine parts temperature

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I don’t know if I am posting this at the right part of the forum, but I have a question and this looks like the right part to place this question.

I have tried searching an answer to this but haven’t found one on the forum.

The engine manager has two test modes:

the first one that shows the stats of the engine
and a second one (accessed by the “test mode”-button under the “start/stop”-button at the testing tab), of which I made a screenshot (I know the engine itself looks extremely blurry, but my laptop can’t handle much better graphics without getting very slow):

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/6517/s2j7.jpg

Every time I use a turbo, this screen shows that both the compressor and the turbine are getting red. This probably means the turbo parts are getting hot at max rpm, which makes perfect sense. However I can’t find out how hot exactly. When I look at the engines specs, the MTBF is just under 70000.

My question is: Does this mean that the turbo parts are just getting at operating temperature and will be ok (looking at the MTBF) or do the red parts mean they are getting too hot?

And if this means the turbo parts are getting to hot, is there a good way to get them cooled better?

Or maybe this is just a part of the game that isn’t completed yet?

Thanks in advance for the help.

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The parts getting red does not have anything to do with temperature. It’s just showing the air flow through the engine: When the air flow is limited by a part, it turns yellow or red. Try increasing the size of the respective part to get rid of it. Sometimes you want to have the turbo to turn red at high RPM when you want a small turbo to spin at low RPM.

(The icons for pistons, conrods, crank and valves are not showing air flow, but stress and valve float.)

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Thanks for the information, I never thought about this test mode being for air flow and stress/valve float. Perhaps it is better if a bit of text (a title would be enough) is added to that test mode to make it more clear? As the section help video doesn’t say anything about this.

So the reason this occurred every time I use a turbo is probably because I only used (relatively) small turbo’s till now.

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I thought it all was about stress of the parts.
Thanks for the information Bayer :smiley:

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Yeah, we really need to improve that section and explain how it works better :wink:

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Tool-Tips will have a huge part in explaining things like this, once we get around to including them… which will happen before release, definitely. The current UI user feedback is lackluster at best. :slight_smile: