Fellow quad cam engineer, I can call thee comrade!
(Yes, it’s hella expensive, but you can’t go past DOHC 5 valve tech when you want POWAAAAAAAAAAH)
And how much POWAAAAH have you got exactly?
I’ll pm you the answer, as is probably better suited to the spirit of these tournaments!
Some are more equal in soviet russia… some even have this capitalistic mechanical injection!
so ostentatious! So excessive! And so expensive!!! (Even I, purveyor all many excesses, balked at the bill for direct mechanical injection!)
Pyrlix, I’ll get my car in to you soon. I’m just trying to figure out how I can lower the price down by about $40 -.-
Join my dear comrades! 6 days to go to make the fastest soviet brick… in the world!
Strop’s skinny front tires are weird. I wonder what he’s up to.
Well, he’s got a mid-engined car, probably with 30/70 weight distribution. The skinny tires probably help the tameness so much they improve the times.
A tribute to an absolutely mediocre Romanian rally car - the Dacia Liberta - that I adored as a kid
I tried to keep it as true to the original as could, so it’s NA, FF (I wish there was an option for longitudinal FF), McPherson strut front, torsion beam rear (again, no option for solid rear axle in FF configuration). Unlike it’s real sibling, this one is set in motion by a V8 with some serious grunt. Much like the real thing, it should get its ass whipped.
Your car passed!
[quote=“RaduST”]A tribute to an absolutely mediocre Romanian rally car - the Dacia Liberta - that I adored as a kid
I tried to keep it as true to the original as could, so it’s NA, FF (I wish there was an option for longitudinal FF), McPherson strut front, torsion beam rear (again, no option for solid rear axle in FF configuration). Unlike it’s real sibling, this one is set in motion by a V8 with some serious grunt. Much like the real thing, it should get its ass whipped.[/quote]
That’s one badass looking rallycar!!! Even if it was crap, who cares when you’re looking the business wherever you go! 
[quote=“Kubboz”]
Well, he’s got a mid-engined car, probably with 30/70 weight distribution. The skinny tires probably help the tameness so much they improve the times.[/quote]
Absolutely, with no down force, balancing the friction with grip is important! You’d be surprised, the car goes a good 4-5s faster around airfield with appropriately selected tyre widths.
The KGB leaked a photo of the first test runs of the new soviet hopes…
It was found in the Sovetsky Sport from today. However the issue from today is printed in decadent colours…
They say that the cars perform very good compared to the ones from our rivals… but only the three very best will be chosen. The rest has to work in gulags for making look soviet union bad.
Great idea with the starting grid
Third row!? Curses! It will take much work to overtake and avoid the Gulags!
And then there is my oddball, the Zhivkov Lev. The only one in the Cortina body, and the only one in a boring colour 
Its the only decadent western oriented car!
I have to avoid the Gulags?!?!?!?!?!
I need to prepare for myself a plan B… slips a loaded Tokarev into my waistband
edit: I’ve been applying some techniques to my entry for this race and I’ve just found out that my entry is so badly tuned that if I get better than last place then I’ll disqualify myself!!! 
Welcome to new car from the Fabricca Italiana Lampredi
the F.I.L. Troll
Is very fast, looks good and makes the soviet union proud of it. The team hopes that it can lead to glorious races for us!
No gulag for us and our weird engine and drivetrain.