Unless you’re on the Virginia international raceway (mega ultra bumpy), or the carpark autocross, more power wins 
That said your car was obviously well tuned for track, like mine, hence punching above power for weight. I don’t think I could have gotten much more out of my configuration without compromising a few key points, such as build quality and reliability and the ability to use it as a daily!
Also, omg, so hard to pick just three cars this round. The styling standard is really high.
As a relative newcomer I did not trouble the leaders (or even expect to), but to be best in class (Muscle Premium) for stage 1 of this round was unexpected, although if I had designed a car with more bang for the buck, I would have done even better.
Dont be shy, vote my car 
i expected my car was the cheapest, lightest, and powerless in the competition. boy am i wrong…
but of course… asdren is running away with this round isn’t he?
winning both round 2 and round 3. he’s the overall winner it seems.
It’s just like what happened in stage 1, where winning rounds 2 and 3 caused a massive upset win. Though this is more running away with it.
For stage 3, well, it’s probably going to be different anyway because our bodies from stage 1 are locked in.
And in case you were wondering… yes, I totally forgot about this xD
Anyways, here are the results for the round 3!
Congratulations to @HowlerAutomotive wasn’t the cheapest, wasn’t the fastest, wasn’t the prettiest, but still manage a solid 54 points. In a way, is weird because @asdren car was very modern, the design, the engineering, and still the Firebrand prove that even the old cheap technology is worth its use 
Congratulations to everyone who participate, proving to the fruinian petrolheads that even the big muscle cars can be fast, relatively cheap, economical and environmental friendly!
Oh man what!!! I was looking forward to a top ten finish only to be beaten by the car that was constantly behind me hmph! Congrats to everybody. on a seperate note how can there be 20 votes when there was only 18 competitors?
4th. ooh. i didn’t expect to be that high, i thought i would be in the middle pack.
but those 2 up top… literally doubled mine… scary
@howlerautomotive who would’ve thought a race ready v12 car done on the cheap side would’ve won. congrats, that was a nice build.
and now. to round 3, where the moaning about your valvetrain choices in round 1 begins.
I did vote, so I guess some expectator in the forum (maybe vri404) also voted
I was the other vote. I wanted to stay involved despite not having an entrant to the contest.
So, If that’s a skew to the votes, I apologize if you didn’t like that, but my votes wouldn’t have changed the outcome to be honest.
Nice job @HowlerAutomotive, strong performance indeed. Same to @asdren and @AirJordan . The styling round always shakes things up a bit and I was lucky to benefit a bit from that!
I’ll mitigate my valve train choices with my sheer displacement… I have a lot of potential power at my disposal still!
Don’t worry, I believe the voting was, and ought to have been, open to non-participants. Otherwise it’d be the equivalent of those internal industry awards that the public doesn’t care about
Ah all good I was a little perplexed lol.
say that to the DOHC 4 valve guys…
i just stayed in the middle line with SOHC 3 valves. not bad but not the best but okay-ish
The DOHC guys will have plenty of power, yes, but not so much in the weight balance department (says the guy with a 10.9L block in his bay). You could say my turbo intentions are a means of compensation…
Now I’m afraid of my car being picked in round 3.
(It’s horridly un-optimized and crap.))
Congratulations to @HowlerAutomotive for winning this round on the basis of bang for buck. A tie for last was no surprise; I should have added more power and/or cut the price. But at least I enjoyed this challenge - I am a relative newcomer, after all.
And no, I did not walk away completely empty-handed - my car was actually the highest-placed Muscle Premium entry in the first part of this challenge.
Congrats to @HowlerAutomotive!
I’m happy to be third in a competition with such high standards and I lacked the experience of building a muscle.
Looking forward to 3rd round challenge
Big thanks for your votes and the congratulations! Good show everybody, especially @Asdren, @AirJordan and @koolkei!
Have to say, I was worried about round three even with the point lead I had, because there were so many good looking cars in the running.
On to stage three then, and I’m not going to neglect track performance for wheelspin this time like I did in Stage 1. The engine I used is only SOHC, but there’s 4 valves per cyl and plenty of displacement so it should be alright. Still tempted by turbos, though. More power, after all, is more power.
Congrats to @HowlerAutomotive
I wasn’t expecting to take the second place since i score almost no points in the first one. A pleasant surprise I would say
Thanks to @Sillyworld for hosting the challenge.
