Sorry, this is not enough to make an educated build. We need to set our minimum acceptable values before we get started on it.
Also why “4 seats minimum”? MR2’s and miatas are not welcome?
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You’re right. I guess I’ll have to set minimum values. On the 2 seater thing, I wasn’t thinking of Miatas, roadsters and these kind of vehicles at the moment. My fault for not taking these into account.
No no, WE have to set the minimum values we’re ready to deal with. You should provide formulas for us to work off. The challenge must be transparent enough, so that anybody could run it, that way we can test our cars properly before entering.
I see now. I misunderstood your previous message. My bad. I will add the formula behind it.
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Also… And here I was thinking that 640hp is enough from Saminda 2.2 liter engine in a Tsukuba. Time to see what the chassis got to offer in 2017.
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##Nicholas Justinian.
An Arrogant, rude, over the top personality. He is stubborn beyond measure. An aggressive driver, his signature racing technique is the divebomb overtake.
That said, He has quite the mind for engineering, although the entirety of his experince has been pen and paper knowledge, rather than experince leanred from
working on cars in real life. Although he would argue he’s played Car Mechanic Simulator and taken enough courses to work on a car with no difficulties.
After spending many years in the United States, he has just graduated from his 4 year school as a B student all around. He’s layed around the house for six months, because he can’t find a job that ‘suits him’. He’s now spending time in Japan on a “Self Discovery” trip, funded by his wealthy parents. Who were more than happy just to get him out of their house.
##The Stock Car.
The stock car, is 2004 Shromet Interval 540. The original car debuted in the 80s, and was a showcase of futurism, and Shromet’s engineering chops. Combing new elements, such as the “Thermoset Polymer Construction.” Which we know today as Fiber Glass.
Despite the original using anemic 5.4 Liter V8, The car cemented Shromet’s Forward thinking engineering enough to show that it wasn’t a passing trend of a company.
However, Shromet focused more on it’s base line, and did not update the Interval over the years, and by 2004, those old problems were clearly showing. It used a 5 Speed gearbox, and despite the Original 5.4L engine being recast in aluminum, it was still an old design. in the 1980s, perhaps the 240 Horsepower may have been acceptable, but in 2004, Honda challenged that number with a naturally aspirated engine that was half the size. The fact that this was a base model meant it was pretty pathetic as is, and Nicholas managed to scoop it up for $6,500 Dollars, and paying 55243 Yen (About 500$) for shipping, it was ready for an upgrade.
##The Upgraded Car.
One credit card, One workshop, and a whole bunch of Ebay Parts later, this car is ready for war.
Carbon fiber hood, massive spoiler
Performance Exhaust
Larger race fuel injectors
New Limited Slip Differential
Peformance ECU with 2 Step Launch Control
Higher Compression, Lower AFR
Recaro Seats, Radio/Speaker Removal
Fresh set of Pirelli P-Zeros
Time To tackle the Touge.
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Martin Todd, an ex KHT empolyee, moved to Japan in 2015. The automotive culture took him in, and soon after he has sourced a pretty banged up and beat KHT Tsukuba from the early 90’s. The choice was obvious since not only he knew the car pretty well, it being the most popular KHT vehicle ever, but also because the little coupe was powered by Saminda HE22 engine, which made sourcing performance parts easy as pie in Japan.
By 2017 Martin dropped his track day hobby since it was getting too expensive, and restrictive and joined a touge oriented club. Club challenges were issued a lot, and Martin improved his skill greatly by pushing the car to the limit sometimes 2 or 3 nights a week. When the crew heard of Automation D championship style challenge they knew they had to take part and send one of theirs to show the competition what’s what. After a few test runs it was clear that Martin and his Tsukuba are the fastest bet in the whole club, and that’s how he ended up here.
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I’ve got an 80s car lying around I am trying to tune but switching to 2017 has it gain 200 kg weight I can’t remove with quality sliders!
What a beauty! The Tsukuba really is one of my favorite cars at this forum. Let’s see how it goes against the Surge 
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Yeah, let’s just say, Im happy with it, but Im cautiously happy, so I’m not betting on the thing just yet. Also for some reason I do not feel that much attachment to tsukuba, while many seem to like it very much. I recognize it’s potential, but the thing is a tool to me. Don’t know why 
Maybe because it’s got a Saminda engine XD
Well, that make doing a engine swap a lot easier, since you don’t have an attachment to the old engine 
But I like it’s appearance, it looks amazing. I believe this is fault of the large and low body.
Ohhhh many many likes!!!
This is just for the engine?
This is an opportunity to read between the lines of a vague rule. 
15 quality into the engine, unlimited into the chassis, max 5 per section in engine and chassis.
Since the engine isn’t cited anytime I though it was only to the engine. Thanks
Well let’s analyze this.
“Quality sliders must not exceed 15 in total in the engine department”
How many qualty points can we have in the chassis dept? No answer, meaning “if it’s not written down - it’s a rule” takes effect and since there’s no limit on chassis quality imposed - no limit.
“and must not exceed 5 in each section” - self explanatory.
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The limit is you can’t go negative!
Which sucks for the usual weight balance shenanigans with the interior.
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Yeah, I could barely get it within 100 kilos of it’s original weight, sadly
I found this old 80s Toyota, I am sure it will do fine after I tune the 1.6l engine and flare out the wheel housings.
If only the 2017 trim wouldn’t add 114 kg weight for nothing…
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Riso, reset the safety and entertainment options to those from original car