The Highway Patrol Challenge [Reviews]

[Kampfzerstorer]

From the looks of it, I went for the weirdest route; safety and drivability. And looking at other competitors' engine, mine seem to lack the low end grunt in favour for a somewhat linear torque graph.

Maybe later after work, I'll post up the prototype car I had intended to use before scrapping it and rebuild a new one. The car called the Sherman.

[Lordred]

How is its power delivery, my engine has low end power and mid range but not top end

Worried?

[Dgafak87]

How is its power delivery, my engine has low end power and mid range but not top end

Worried?

Damn dude that looks like mine, only mine has a little overrun

[Leonardo9613]

is it a four banger?

Yeah, only because of the service costs.

One thing though, people, please remove the pictures whenever you quote people and don't quote the comment right above yours, it clutters the thread for no reason.

[KLinardo]

is it a four banger?

Yeah, only because of the service costs.

One thing though, people, please remove the pictures whenever you quote people and don't quote the comment right above yours, it clutters the thread for no reason.

A 4-banger that has to move 1300 KG quickly? No wonder you had to stretch the nose to get to the minimum weight. You didn't have an anchor up front. I'll be interested to see how that car performs. Is it fuel injected?

[maxpayne3000]

How is its power delivery, my engine has low end power and mid range but not top end

Worried?

[strop]

Very similar to my own power curve, except with about 70% more everything (except economy. My v8 econobox is comparatively frugal because yay 15.0 AFR).

[Lordred]

I recommend hiding the stats till after the competition is complete. That is why I was only hinting at things, or showing graphs sans the data.

[maxpayne3000]

I'm in it to lose Lordred!

[KLinardo]

I'm in it to lose Lordred!

Don't listen to him. I'm glad you shared. Now I know I'm in the ballpark with some numbers I wasn't positive about.

[KLinardo]

Somebody else should use the mid 70s huge sedan

I was going to because I prefer that body style to the one I used and it was proper for the period. However, knowing that just about everything downsized by 1979, I thought it was a waste given the economy scoring, and the engine bay on my model turned out to be plenty big for what I was designing. If I used that body style I would have dropped a motor that displaced 500-600 CI knowing my tendencies.

However, I agree that you have made a beautiful design for the era. That car mirrors what a police vehicle would have been in the late 70s and I think you deserve an award just for that.

[strop]

A 4-banger that has to move 1300 KG quickly?

This is what gets me: I'm seeing a lot of entries with proper good outputs that actually move the cars quickly, and by quickly, I suppose we mean 0-100 in 8 seconds and whatnot, which still doesn't seem that quick to me.

However the challenge stipulates that the maximum 0-100 time is 12s. Given that drivability is the heaviest weighted, with sportiness being weighted much more lightly, I'm genuinely curious about what seems to be a rather large spread in the entries. In terms of the math, leo's i4 will probably own in terms of economy and service costs. Plus I suspect since he elongated the front bumper, it's possibly a front-wheel drive? That would mean more money to put elsewhere!

[maxpayne3000]

Somebody else should use the mid 70s huge sedan

I was going to because I prefer that body style to the one I used and it was proper for the period. However, knowing that just about everything downsized by 1979, I thought it was a waste given the economy scoring, and the engine bay on my model turned out to be plenty big for what I was designing. If I used that body style I would have dropped a motor that displaced 500-600 CI knowing my tendencies.

However, I agree that you have made a beautiful design for the era. That car mirrors what a police vehicle would have been in the late 70s and I think you deserve an award just for that.

600 CUI sounds good

[Leonardo9613]

In terms of the math, leo's i4 will probably own in terms of economy and service costs. Plus I suspect since he elongated the front bumper, it's possibly a front-wheel drive? That would mean more money to put elsewhere!

That would have been the wise thing to do, but I'm not a wise person, so I went for DW/DW, RWD and hydropneumatic suspension .

[maxpayne3000]

A 4-banger that has to move 1300 KG quickly?

This is what gets me: I'm seeing a lot of entries with proper good outputs that actually move the cars quickly, and by quickly, I suppose we mean 0-100 in 8 seconds and whatnot, which still doesn't seem that quick to me.

However the challenge stipulates that the maximum 0-100 time is 12s. Given that drivability is the heaviest weighted, with sportiness being weighted much more lightly, I'm genuinely curious about what seems to be a rather large spread in the entries. In terms of the math, leo's i4 will probably own in terms of economy and service costs. Plus I suspect since he elongated the front bumper, it's possibly a front-wheel drive? That would mean more money to put elsewhere!

My car is drivable but its got like a 6.3 sportiness rating, understeer is what keeps it driveable