Kit car turbo racing 2016 [*FINISHED*]

[theh4x0r1337]

At first I thought to myself 'what a pity I can't use the tech sliders for the most part'. Then I realised that you can actually push quite a bit out of what you have without even touching the tech sliders. The whole more horsepower than kilograms makes total sense now, I suspect that the times for this challenge are going to be abnormally quick.

will see

[strop]

After some tinkering, it turns out that it's possible to make some very viable racing rear-engined cars after all.

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I originally designated this Hot Rod but felt that it just didn't have enough zing...

With a widebody kit whacked on to give a bit of a retro jet fighter appearance, and an oversized double whale-tail style spoiler with hydraulic flaps, this is every bit a mad RR racer. I even backed off on the turbo, dropping power from its original >1200hp so that the car was remotely driveable

(Still >1hp:kg though.)

[Manche]

still trying to get a car not to blow up the tires even with measly 525 hp i4!

[strop]

It takes a bit of experimentation with aero as well. These cars are very vulnerable to high front lift. If not for my car's active aero it would have lifted off no matter what I did!

[AirJordan]

love the design!
btw is there a hotkey in the game which blackens out background? If there isn't, it would be a nice touch.

[Sebesseg]

Well I built a car for this, but was waiting to see if a track name was going to be released so I could attempt to maximize time on it. I just picked a body I liked and went from there. Then strop comes along with a beast that at its height had 400-ish more HP so obviously I must try this...beetle (?) body out. Manage to fit an engine 2x as big as my other one (not always necessarily good) w/ room to fit maximized turbo aaaaannnnddd I blow the tires. I can't do anything more with the tires so maybe I'll play with the aero...lol noep game crashes whenever I try to access aero.

[strop]

It's a bit finnicky. Also this isn't the frame which fits the *largest* engine, I don't think.

But it does accommodate 315 wide rear wheels, and that's something I felt was probably necessary. My other test mobile could only manage 225 and with 1300hp it was like... nope. A shame, really, because I wanted to go one time for maximum POWAAAAAAAA but the temptation of better lap times was just too great. Also I totally haven't optimised it for any particular track, I don't have time to do that these days, so I just guesstimate and go "oh, that'll do!"

[Sebesseg]

I think was actually using the slightly smaller one which fits a larger engine, but smaller tires. I got a 5.8L V8 Turbo (others might be able to get bigger) in the smaller body with 305s on the back, but touching the aero still immediately leads to a crash. Everything else is fine though. Switching to the other type, I got the 315s, but only a 4.3L V8. Meanwhile the original car I built has 295s and a 2.7L.

I think I'm just going to either go with the original one or pick or pick a body no-one else is using for variety.

[Madrias]

Well, Strop, I look forward to a Duel of the Rockets. I'll mention that I more likely than not have the lower horsepower here between the two of them, but I think I did good for my first Rear Engine car. As for track optimization, I was more concerned with "Don't spin out" and "Don't explode the tires" than "Go fast around a track."

Still, it's looking like there's gonna be some interesting competition.

[stensen]

is that wing a mod? i am wirking on the same Body and couldn't find such a neat wing..

edit: uhm, 305s on the smaller one...? Need to check that one out once again

[KLinardo]

is that wing a mod?

I think it's the same wing placed inside itself but a bit shorter

[stensen]

hm, mine doesnt Need THAT much downforce...

[nerd]

snip

denied - it used quality sliders

Why not just put all the accepted/denied entries on the first post, and then let them submit 1 revision?


Example:

Accepted Entries:
User1 - Car1 - enginetype1
User2- Car2 - enginetype2
User3 - Car3 - enginetype3
User4- Car4 - enginetype3
Rejected Entries:
User5 - Car5 - enginetype2 - it used quality sliders
User6- Car6 - enginetype2 - it used quality sliders
Pending Entries:
User7 - Car7 - enginetype3

[strop]

305s on the smaller one? Blast! I could have had an even lighter Red Rocket! Which body exactly???

[Sebesseg]

@Strop: Just slam the slider all the way down (or thereabouts depending on the number of modded bodies) and on the last row (or close to last) you can see the 2.05m beetle-looking vehicle just to the left of the 2.6m not-De luxe. I'm guessing the Red Rocket is the 2.6m, but I originally thought it was the 2.05m which made me play around with it. The 2.05m (in my experience) fits a larger engine, but smaller tires (it fits 305s after you flare it all the way out) than the 2.6m.

As a heads up it also, again in my experience, doesn't play very well with two wings as I had repeated crashes doing nothing but selecting aero. Removing the second wing alleviated the issue. Replacing a second wing doesn't cause initial problems, but upon leaving the car and loading it back the issue reappeared, but not consistently like it had before. Its been fine after adjusting rear wing aero so its weird. It could just be on my end.