Absolutely, in lore terms developing a six speed box (the most durable of its kind in the world) was one thing that nearly sent GG broke, among many other things.
I had a number of things planned for this, including a story for titleguy1 that was supposed to be finished before the end of last year. Everything is running late and I’ve been commenting as I’ve been meaning to get my stuff together, but I simply don’t have the energy for it right now! So I guess I’m going to have to come late to the party.
Here we have the fastest and most powerful vehicle Normandy has ever built. It has and 8.0L 40V Biturbo V8 with 2800+ HP, 2000+ Torque, and a seven speed, double clutch, AWD sequential gearbox.
It will round green hell in 6:40, and (as of right now at least) top out at 427. With some further technical tweaking, it should easily exceed 450.
I present, for your approval, the Normandy Valhalla. But I call it the Track Breaker.
Yeah, I figured. The whole car seems to be based on “big numbers to wow the crowd”, but in all honesty that makes it seriously overweight and frankly overkill. You can achieve better results if you scale the lunacy down
I can tell you that Patriot engineers were amazed at their recent Bonneville tests. Testing a one-off quad-cam 32V version of their Super Stomper 572 V8, they were able to clock 291 mph (468 kph).
But that was not the amazing thing. Amazing was that acceleration did not improve ONE BIT with 350 hp added over the “stock” engine. So to anyone thinking that pushrod engines are
dead and gone, Patriot sought improvements by means of multivalve technology - but found none . It seems that efficiency comes in many forms.
[quote=“squidhead”]
And here I am designing a Flug Stolz for 1978 with a mighty 80hp 2.7 12 valve…[/quote]
I’ve thought about making an economy brand too though! But yeah, my point was just that you don’t always get what you expect with such and such numbers written down.
Efficiency is a funny thing and it takes a lot of trial and error to find those ‘sweet spots’. And that way it’s the same for all cars, not only for psychotic hypercars
[quote=“TurboJ”]Speaking of hypercar performance efficiency.
I can tell you that Patriot engineers were amazed at their recent Bonneville tests. Testing a one-off quad-cam 32V version of their Super Stomper 572 V8, they were able to clock 291 mph (468 kph).
But that was not the amazing thing. Amazing was that acceleration did not improve ONE BIT with 350 hp added over the “stock” engine. So to anyone thinking that pushrod engines are
dead and gone, Patriot sought improvements by means of multivalve technology - but found none . It seems that efficiency comes in many forms.[/quote]
It’s not just that - traction effects are expected ofc. But the thing is with even more power, the transmission gets heavier and so much more cooling is needed etc.
Bottom line: in my case the car got so much heavier and gained so much drag that it was actually SLOWER on quarter mile and 1 km acceleration tests even though 0-62 mph it was as quick.
So I’m talking more about efficiency than about traction.
Sometimes I feel a bit mystified that I’m backing off from the whole original GG makes the most powerful fastest cars etc. etc.
Then I remember the fuel consumption of these kinds of engines is like 60L/100km, then I remember it gets really old pulling into the petrol station every hour
But seriously showing that it can be done, cool stuff. I’m just sad that the ultra power and performance is getting even further nerfed in the coming updates.
Wow…This is going to be VERY tough to beat.
. It seems that efficiency comes in many forms.
