Automation Touring Car Championship [FINAL RESULTS]

[WoarLord]

Get an Inline 4, more torque,cheaper. i tried Inline 6 an V8 as well and those are way to expensive just for a tiny more Power an less torque.
Ok its sounds more like a raceengine.
But
2L V8: not in this competition. 2L Straight 6: not for this competition
Only if money dosn' count.

Don't hit me.

[EnryGT5]

Just found out that i didn't need to alter B/S, just cranked up cam quality and increased ignition timing from 50 (i forgot about that) to 85, i got 307hp, and i wasted half of my $2000 budget, the rest being used for moar handling

[Microwave]

Ok, just out of curiosity what kind of times do your cars put out on the Automation Test Track?

[VicVictory]

I'm going to step in here and say "not while we're still in the design phase", please. If y'all want to talk about that in PM, fine. But don't start a redesign escalation by posting them publicly.

[Microwave]

Yeah... actually that's probably not a good idea
After all, it was people posting their power ratings that I decided I needed to redesign.

[strop]

What niall said is quite true, in this simulation you basically want to find the optimum balance between can profile, compression ratio and injection timing. It depends on the engine configuration of course... I just find that with high quality NA engines you can have both values be quite high. Its simpler because the torque curves are relatively smooth compared to turbos.

Using 4cyl made for a more powerful (but less smooth) engine. I don't think budget is the only situation in which larger engines lose out, seeing as an i6 won the Comrade challenge (and that was a turbo versus na v8s!). It'd be about useable power. As we know, I only care about maximising power and then trying to get the car to tap as much of it as it can :p but I actually DROPPED 20hp from the output of my engine to give it a wider and more progressive power band. Still, I hope the driver is handy with the throttle!

[Microwave]

Ok, fuck it. Gonna go re-make the engine.

Edit: Re-made the engine, car went even slower, no remake for me.

[WoarLord]

Don't make make you all mad about my post.
I am sorry, i shouldn't done that.
I posted the stats before it was accepted, which it isn't yet.
I had to rework it twice so far to get it ruleconform.

btw: horsepower isn't anything.

[Microwave]

Actually, upon further contemplation, it would be stupid to up the power in the car. It's already got 200 and something horsepower through a high revving V8, and it's sitting on 215MM tires on all four corners. Anything more and it would probably have mental wheel spin.
My car is actually fairly fast around the track, too.

[strop]

Probably an NA putting out 220hp could probably keep up to a turbo with 300hp on some tracks, I'm betting. I think my car has like a 12% wheelspin penalty?

[Microwave]

Mine's only got something like a 1.0% penalty o-o

[strop]

Let's just say that I'm fairly sure my car is going to have not only the highest power, but also the highest power to weight ratio. And that wheelspin is despite running high quality semi-slicks...

[Microwave]

My car has something like 9 lbs for every horsepower :L

[strop]

Err, under 4 over here

[Microwave]

I now get 8.82
I see no way of making it any lighter