I appreciate you doing the tests Blackdog, your results are similar to my own. Closing the rads further will just damage the engine so nothing to be gained at all there. I have to disagree on the thought that it is close enough to be honest. This test is only the SL speeds, as you gain altitude the 109E gets further from its actual RL speeds, as much as 30-40 MPH in some cases. This is the case for most fighters in CoD, the only ones that get RL speeds are the Spitfire Mk IIa and the Bf110 (for a DB601A-1 variant at 30min power). There is no Bf110C with DB601N in COD, about half of the 110s in BoB were so equiped.
It is all academic really, the FMs in CoD are in need of a lot of work right now. The devs are trying to fix so many serious bugs it could be a while before they can devote resources to fixing FMs.
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