Huh, I’m ready i think… F154 FA Powered retromod of Ferrari 308, i represent the “Barbarian”
(Inspired by the Ferrari 308 “Brawler”: La Ferrari 308 'The Brawler' è il perfetto restomod digitale)
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I assume the original car should have a flatplane crankshaft? The .car has a crossplane. Changing crankshaft from flat (original?) to crossplane should constitute engine swap imo considering it’s not as simple as just changing the crank, it takes a lot more than that and isn’t really feasable
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yeah, iirc the f106 and rest of the dino family v8s all used a flatplane crank, assuming this is a mistake from the host?
Oh crap. That’s actually a mistake from my side. I forgot to change to a flatplane crank when building the engine, because I had actually forgotten that option even existed in game, I don’t build supercar engines too often, that’s obvious… 
It’s a bit late to change that now, but… my suggestion is that if you want to keep the original engine, yes, change it to a flatplane crank if you want to keep it realistic.
However, it’s a thing that is a bit complicated to do a workaround for now just because I messed up, so I can only say it as a recommendation. When changing the crank for a flatplane one, it does not affect the pricing of the car as I can see…so implementing a penalty now for an engineering decision I messed up myself does not seem 100% necessary.
Checking things up, it seems like the version used in the Lancia 8.32 actually has a crossplane crank, so I guess that could be the sketchy realism loophole that saves the situation.
So, no changes rule wise but yeah, while you’re at it, if you want this to be a modified original engine realism wise, I can recommend a crank change…
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Rules delib closed. Submissions open.
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We heard you at Roadburners when you said, “Nothing is Sacred.”
We know that showing the original a bit of respect is important… The heart and soul of a car shouldn’t change too much no matter how wild we go with it.
This is why, compared to most of our Roadburners Customs, this one was kept tame.
Meet the Ferrari 308 GTB Roadburners Special, named “The Red Ones Go Faster!”
So, what’d we do besides desecrate a classic? We took some inspirations from various supercars, including other Ferraris, to make this one better.
- AWD because there’s no excuse for wheelspin off of the line.
- A modest bump in horsepower over the factory standard thanks to some custom five-valve heads and a turbo - inspired by the legendary F40 (Yes, it has two of them and you get one - it spools faster that way.)
- An extra rear axle to put that power into the pavement, inspired by other Formula 1 cars (like the March 2-4-0) that raced against Ferrari.
- An aerodynamics package intended to help stick the car better to the ground.
- A tastefully-integrated sat-nav system meant to keep interior changes minimal and unobtrusive.
- A delightful six-speed gated manual gearbox that gives you what most cars couldn’t in 1980 - “Just one more gear” to get the revs down on the highway.
- A raised rev limit, pushing to a screaming 9,000 RPM. The internals can go higher, we know, but we had one more ace up our sleeve that we couldn’t deploy if we had tried to make it sing to 12,000 RPM.
- Fully emissions legal anywhere in the world. That’s right, you heard us: This car can beat the modern smog tests.
- And last, but certainly not least - A repaint into the famous Rosso Corsa. Because, as we all know:
The Red Ones Go Faster!
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this is definitely something 40k orks would do
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