VicVictory wrote:Jakgoe will not provide either a screen cap with stats or a LUA file
I am not surprised. What does surprise me, however, is that Jakgoe didn't think I'm wasn't too proud to call his bluff (or maybe he thought I was really going to do it, in which case, I'm flattered haha!)
Nobody is obliged to hand over their files, but to make a challenge based on another existing challenge in a separate thread isn't really in the spirit of this thread. In addition, I have no doubt that 1:08.99 is entirely possible. After all, using a 2014 build, Leo and Jakgoe submitted a 1:09.0 (to the nearest tenth). Seeing as Jakgoe went back and racked up what I'd call a 'comfortable' lead afterwards, as to what refusing to share .lua or unedited screenshot actually means, well, I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Basically, I don't want to waste everybody's time any longer. Finding the challenge not so much to my liking but otherwise valid enough, for about fifteen minutes, I went back to my old time-attack MR build and fiddled with the aero and suspension, and whacked some mufflers onto the engine, and shaved off a tenth or so, making my time in 2015 1:09.12 or something. But I'm fairly sure I've hit a wall and I'll need a fresh perspective to find whatever it was I missed, or even make a fundamentally different build with a different body even. There's just too many variables, it'll take me too long, and I got bored.
So there you have it,
I DUNNO LOLAnyway, sharing is caring, so if you want my .lua file, it's the one called Sleipnir TA3. I didn't bother saving it to 2015, I don't think, so it's a 2014 model and gets 1:09.16? I think? Something like that. I'm not sure you'll learn too much about setting up cars in general here because it's just got a whacking big NA V8 and that's pretty easy to make. And the rest of it is such an extreme build it'll pretty much only run on a perfectly flat surface. Also, look at the bump graph lol. If you do manage to find a way to make it even faster around airfield, by all means let me know!
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Moving right along, I have one for HighOctaneLove that will really bake his noodle.
Surpassing One's MasterYou, (HighOctaneLove), run a Moldovan automotive manufacturer with its own tuning house hoping to make a real impact in the first world (how about that!). However, your race pedigree hasn't... been off to the unequivocally... strongest start ever. Something you wanted to rectify. So sometime in the not-so-distant past, you approached infamous boost nut, Stroppy McHorseguy, and asked him to proverbially pop the hood on his modified old bomb he was planning to use in a race series. He was only too happy to oblige, but what you saw seemed to make no sense whatsoever: How did a car as completely undriveable as his manage to get around the track without crashing let alone win races?
Since then, you really wrestled with your firm belief in accessible, well-balanced vehicles with nice gradual torque curves. Having pushed the envelope, you've actually seen some result, others have noticed it too, and it's encouraging: the sun is rising on the Moldovan ascension!
Just around the corner is a European GTi cup. Powerful, comfortable, practical, fun, economical and inexpensive don't normally belong in the same sentence, especially not in a Balkan country still marred by violent disputes over governance. But the GTi hot hatch market is really tough, as
this call for contenders in the 2015 market shows. And a market that, if tapped, can be extremely lucrative. So it'd be really awesome if you could wow everybody at the opening race, Brands Hatch Indy, and beat some of your old idols while you were at it.
The good thing about a racing cup, is that you can ditch the comfortable, practical and to an extent, the economical. The bad thing about this racing cup, is that you've been gifted, courtesy of your old buddy Stroppy McHorseguy, probably the least suitable chassis for a racing cup. It looks like a freaking people mover. In fact, wait, it IS a people mover, one that Strop has facetiously named Enigma. Well, the whole deal seems pretty mysterious to you right now.
But mysterious or not, he seems to have faith in you, and you've got a real chance to make your mark. This is the time to make your own leap of faith, and apply everything you know to the limits. As a well loved rapper once said, if you had one opportunity... would you capture it, or just let it slip?
THE RULES:The original Enigma makes a decent 270hp out of a 1273cc DI turbo i4. In fact, for a 1175kg premium hatch, it gets around the track pretty sharpish, probably just as much aided as hindered by its various sporting bells and whistles. It's certainly nice enough to sit in... but you're not going to win any races taking a bloatmobile around the circuit now are you? Frustratingly for you, the cup only allows a rather narrow range of modifications in order to maintain some semblance of spirit, so you're going to have to be very focused. More power! More speed!
The GTi cup stipulates that the car must be a close resemblance of the original in body, engine and drivetrain. So strictly speaking, you need to use a 1273cc DOHC 20 valve DI turbo i4 in the same Enigma body. What does this really mean? I'll walk you through it:
- No changing anything whatsoever on the platform. No materials, no layout, no body, no suspension, no morphing, no fixture, no quality changes. Must be original, or it's not according to the letter of the law of this production car cup (oh, you CAN change the paintjob if you wish)
- No changing the materials or dimensions in the engine, and no changing the valvetrain or injection system
- Most other things in the engine are fair game. Compression, cam profile, turbo, intake, fuel type, fuel mix, ignition timing, rev limiter and exhaust are free to be modified
- Engine quality sliders are fair game
- The only thing that must remain untouched in the trim are the width of the wheels. They must all be 265mm wide, but the diameter, profile and material is entirely up to you
- Also, you can only use power steering, all the other driving aids need to be removed
- Otherwise, you are free to change EVERYTHING ELSE in the trim (including quality sliders)
- Other race regulations included a minimum safety of 30, and a minimum engine reliability of 50, whatever
Your budget? You... don't have any. You're not exactly rich, after all! Well, the parts for the original car came up to
$14000. So if you hock some of the useless stuff off, you could possibly make some savings and see how far that, and some elbow grease takes you (hint: surprisingly far!)
Your aim? It looks like Strop's build for the ATCC 2, that lovely HR31, ran a best lap of
57.80 around Brands Hatch.
If you can beat that, it would prove your true mettle as a race tuner. You have to beat it, any way you know how.
I've also attached the Enigma GTi, as entered into the Hot Hatch contest. That's the car you have to base it off!
Good luck, and Godspeed.
Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:56 am 
