Barely Street Legal League [SURVEY ON PAGE 70]

[3rayman3]

its all about the BOOOOOOOOOST

[HellBoyBG]

Now that there is less than an hour till the 7th (in my time zone, GMT+2) i'm curious. What was your engine power and torque ?

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[nialloftara]

I tried pushrods, but 1974 was not a good year for high revving ohv.

[RaduST]

3.2 V8

[07CobaltGirl]

Here is my vision of madness. The car is a 1986 E30 M3. The engine is from a 2007 Z06 Corvette with a Twin-Turbo added.

Quick Specs:
Chassis: 1986 BMW E30 M3
Weight: 1230 kg (2711 lbs)
Drive Layout: FR
Tires: 275/30R16 FR, 305/30R16 RR

Engine: 2007 LS7 7.0L OHV V8 (all aluminum)
Power: 940 kW (1260 hp)
Torque: 1331 N-m (982 lb-ft)

Tameness: 0.0
Sportiness: 68.2
Comfort: 4.8
Prestige: 37.4 (seriously?)
Safety: 2.5
Reliability: 70.6

The image will tell you the rest of the story.

[strop]

I have good news and bad news:

Bad news: The BSLL is cancelled.

...

hahahahaha jokes. The BSLL is still going ahead. However I happen to be away from my usual computer for the next 54 hours or so (as accurate as I can guess to the nearest hour). This means that there will be a slight delay in the processing of the final entries (I have a few sitting in my inbox that I won't be able to properly test). What I can do is at least check to see if they qualify.

Deadline is STILL 23:59:59 EST of TODAY, which, at the time of writing of this post, is 11 hours away. After that I will be accepting no new entries. However I will give time to finalise all the other entries, if you have a problem (i.e. haven't received a PM from me saying that your entry is legit, and also see your entry at the bottom of the first post in this thread). It'll just take time for me to actually get the series... started.

Good news: You'll get to find out some of the vital stats of the cars as well as what each car looks like as I have made the traditional Top Trump cards for each and every entry! (Bad news: I can't finish them until I get back on Sunday, so you'll just have to wait).

[07CobaltGirl]

I made mine for you.

[strop]

I like that you don't get that your car's prestige rating is 37.4. Speed and engine counts for something! (That it's one of several certified near undriveable death traps, however, appears not to heh).

[nialloftara]

Frame year 1986
engine year 1974
(unofficial body year 1969)
weight 3662.8 lbs

Tameness 45.5
Sportiness 52.3
Comfort 17.5
prestige 64.8
Safety 26.4
0-60 4.4
1/4 mile 11.58@ 233kph
Top speed 400 kph

9.7 liter 40 valve dohc all aluminum V8
1061hp
797ft-lbs
It was a model made before catalytic converters so she'll run good on regular gas.

[EnryGT5]

Since a lot of you are posting their almost full specs, now it's time to drop the secret stat-bomb we were hiding, prepare to be SCARED

Engine Year: 2014
Chassis Year: 1990

Engine Stats:

Layout: V8 Crossplane DOHC 40V DFI
Power: 1220HP@8400RPM
Torque: 1101NM@7400RPM
Redline: 9000RPM
Responsiveness: 75.4
Weight: 230.1KG
Economy: 23.54%
Drivetrain tab reliability: 10.7

Car Stats:

Weight: 1074KG
Drivetrain: 5 Gear AWD
Tameness: 49.2
Sportiness: 83.2
Comfort: 7.8
Prestige: 53.7
Safety: 9.8
Economy: 28.6 mpg
Top Speed: 381.7 Km/h
Quarter Mile: 8.9xs @ 281 Km/h
0-100: 2.5s
Handling: 1.39-1.54g

[strop]

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED! Sorry for being 2 hours late, my internet access was a bit shaky for a while.

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Long after the warehouse had shut down for the night, and the sun had set, a select few of the core of the Gryphon Gear team sat in the upstairs office. Dan, team manager accounts gatekeeper and aide of all things legal, had done the noodle box round, and having dropped it off, promptly left. Her only parting comment was: "I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I said nothing, and I know nothing." Twenty seconds later, tyre screeching could be heard from the carpark, and then they were alone.

For a moment, Hannah, Noah, Tesla and Strop sat in silence as they negotiated with the noodles. Finally, Strop swallowed, then he spoke.

"Last call guys, are we all still in?"

"Well duh." Noah retorted. "You're not getting cold hooves now are you?"

Strop made a wounded pout. "Just checking." He aimlessly scrolled through the list of entries, reviewing their documentation for the umpteenth time. "Hannah, is your kid sorted?"

"Yep." Hannah made no effort to swallow before speaking, flecks flying out of her mouth. "Boden's all over it." Strop glanced at Tesla but she was in no position to talk, her nose jammed tightly into the box as she snarfed everything down with typically canine voracity. "Is the truck loaded?" Tesla merely flashed her thumbs up at Strop, leaving the noodle box suspended over her nose.

“Very well then…” On the computer, Strop flicked across to the open email addressed to the twenty-odd entrants from all over the world, who had submitted their details and their cars to what promised to be a gruelling, exhilarating but mostly hair-raisingly scary fortnight. There was everything from modern supercars to tuner cars to prototypes to rebuilt classics and even Frankenstein cars with bodies and engines from completely different companies, let alone eras. There was no way of telling how it was going to turn out, and of course, that was racing at its finest. Even if it was barely legal for the most part, and downright illegal in others.

Strop attached the attachment to the email, the finalised schedule to which they would run. It was with the leverage of their kind sponsors (plus a certain amount of omission from the proposal they had sent) that they had been able to secure bookings at any of the venues they were aiming for, and they were opportunities not to be wasted. Then in the body of the message, he simply wrote:

“Bring yourselves, your cars, and any supplies you need to the Gryphon Gear factory at the precise moment Sunday becomes Monday in Victoria, Australia.”

The others watched as he encrypted the lot. They all looked at each other one last time, and nodded. With resolute commitment, Strop hit SEND, and the Barely Street Legal League was on!

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Attached file: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (in EST with daylight savings in effect):

0:00 November 10: meet at the Gryphon Gear factory in Donnybrook, Victoria, Australia
0:00 November 11: meet at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
0:00 November 13 (local time 23:00 November 12): meet at Mount Haruna in Gunma, Japan
0:00 November 16 (local time 06:00 November 15): meet at the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0:00 November 17 (local time 0:700 November 16): meet at Tulsa Raceway Park, Oklahoma, USA
0:00 November 19 (local time 11:00 November 18): meet at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Surrey, UK
12:00 November 20 (local time 0:00 November 20): meet at Circuit de la Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France
0:00 November 22 (local time 12:00 November 21): meet at Spa Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium
0:00 November 23 (local time 12:00 November 22): meet at Nordschleife, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6:00 November 23 (local time 18:00 November 23): close of track, adjourn to local pub for presentation, celebration.

[8bs]

Nice....

In the air the smell of burning rubber, gasoline, adrenaline and death.... will take over the next few weeks ....

[nialloftara]

Very well ladies and gentlemen, I look foward to seeing you all at the starting line, and hope to see at least most of you at the finish. let us bow our heads now and remember jessie's prayer.

[07CobaltGirl]

Kristina checks her email and spots an ominous one from Gryphon Gear, one which she had been both anxiously anticipating and dreading at the same time. After a long pause, she clicked on the decrypting key and awaited the results. Her eyes were wide, perhaps from fear of what it may hold, or perhaps from sheer excitement of what it could mean for Swanson Motorsports. Finally, it finished, and the text began to appear on her glowing screen in the dark office. She was in. She instantly knew Gryphon Gear was completely and utterly mad, which was exactly what she had hoped they would be. She had submitted a nightmare disguised as an automobile for a competition which might just prove to include the most insane group of people on the planet.

Her submission was an abomination of the worst kind. An aged body and chassis, with skinny tires, no modern drivers aids, and nearly 1300hp to the rear wheels. She thought to herself, "Are you fucking mad? Do you really intend to operate this thing against other drivers with a similar passion for lunacy?" She shrieked out loud, "Of course, you silly witch!" Her grandfather may have given her the introduction, but since those 35 years had passed, she had only gasoline in her veins, and a right foot made of pure dark matter, far to heavy to lift from any accelerator. This was her moment to shine. No rules. No inhibitions. No sanity. Pure adrenaline to feed her aching desire to go as fast as possible, in what others would only talk about driving.

She had to reinforce the chassis to withstand the 1100 lb-ft of torque traveling down the drive-shaft from 19PSI of forced-induction. The interior had been gutted with a full 6-point roll cage. The inner fenders had been all but removed to force a twin-turbo LS7 monster under the hood. The front fascia had to be modified to afford nearly 2000 kJ/s for cooling and the factory. M3's are already fast. Nobody can deny this fact. But she had doubled the original engine size and quadrupled the engine power forcing her to retrofit an M22 Muncie in the car to keep up with the output, as the original 5-speed crumbled on the first run around the Swanson Proving Grounds. Even the Muncie had to be updated with titanium gears and shafts, as it still wasn't strong enough. And she left the factory brakes on the car....surely she is mad enough to compete in something from Gryphon Gear.

Apparently Gryphon Gear agreed, as the email confirmed her acceptance into the competition. There was no turning back now. The path was set in stone, and she braced herself for the ride of a lifetime. The best of both worlds. The E30 M3 and the Corvette Z06 beast's heart. Bring it on!

[HellBoyBG]

Since a lot of you are posting their almost full specs, now it's time to drop the secret stat-bomb we were hiding, prepare to be SCARED

Maybe i'm just ignorant and miss the point, but what was so scary 'bout your stats ?