The FWD Sedan Endurance Series. entries closed!

[Jastrzab1984]

What is the rule of sending entries?
And where we need to send it?

[strop]

Rules are always in the first post of the thread, on page one. To send entries, PM the author of the thread with your model attached!

[Sayonara]

[picture of a civic]

If this happens to look suspiciously like a FK2 Civic and upcoming Type R, this is your fault.




As a challenge for myself (and because I happened to be bored of designing all-out race cars) I decided to build a benchmark of sorts and am running something which gets nowhere close to some of the restrictions for this challenge.

- 70+ average reliability (what do you mean you can't daily your race car)
- $12500 total costs
- 150 production units
- 225 wide tires!
- a full interior with entertainment and safety
- 8.7L/100KM
- road legal (or at least Europe probably won't stop you from buying one)

I expect it to still be plenty quick, but if nothing else I'll have the only entry which you can drive to, around, and back from the race track.

[strop]

Truthfully, it looks good. But if it returns as much output as the upcoming Type R, it will also have approximately half as much power as my crappy banger Telstar (because I got bored of restricting myself, funnily enough)

[Sayonara]

The real Type R will probably have a much more driver-friendly torque curve, yes. And also only two doors.

It will also probably have a turbocharged K20. I was actually rather excited about putting a K24-esque engine into this body and running in the naturally aspirated class, but it turns out that it doesn't fit despite being very undersquare (87 x 99mm).

Given that the R18 is also undersquare (81 x 87.3mm, but I destroked it down to R16 spec 77.4mm) and only just fits I think it's safe to assume that there's something funny going on with this body's engine bay.

[strop]

It's the transmissions, the transverse engine transmissions, like the longitudinal layout, scales, but is tacked onto the end of the block. We're hoping that will be addressed by introducing transaxle to the transmission lineup. Also, double wishbones take up a lot of room!

[mer_at]

Mars Engineering enters the Competition with the ME Diecimila .

[Jakgoe]

I think you might have given turbocharged engines too much of an advantage . But only the results will tell the true story!

[MITTNACHT]

HYPERSPEED Auto Garage will enter this series with a lil hatchback.

It's not fast, not even powerful, therefore the driver don't have to brake before a turn.....oh, and it's really not a beauty.

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[EnryGT5]

I managed to make a sub 750kg monster...

[nialloftara]

I think you might have given turbocharged engines too much of an advantage . But only the results will tell the true story!

The track list I'm concocting should favor a well sorted car over a balls out dyno queen, but who knows, anything can happen in racing.

[np1993]

The Zoope shell was modified to meet FWD endurance race standards

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I went for a very generic race body shell-type look

EDIT: any tips on getting the average reliability up? I have more then sufficient cooling and no knock/not running rich on the engine.

[RaduST]

Because brown racing minivan is the best minivan.

[strop]

Nathan: yeah I had some difficulty with that. There are a few things:

• Chassis quality will affect reliability but is not very coat effective.
• likewise body quality, especially if you slashed quality for lightness (like polymer panels). Reliability takes a huge hit
• fixture quality gives a significant bonus for initially low cost. I'd start there
• different types of transmissions, number of gears, and quality will affect reliability
• much smaller effects given to quality of brakes, interior, and I think entertainment, but not safety, aero, or suspension

[np1993]

I am gunna try upping the fixtures, I only have a few hundred left in my budget and am 2.3 points short on the reliability scale.

EDIT: AHA! cheaping out on safety and adding some fixture quality bumped me up to a 65.0 and shaved a few un-needed kg's off of the cars weight!