WELCOME TO THE BOY RACING SERIES (BRS) CHALLENGE:
This is the first chapter (hopefully of many) of a scored car tuning competition in the same vein as the ARM (Automation RestoMod) competition. The primary goal of the challenge is to take (close) replicas of tuners from around the world and make track/drag ready cars with modified engines and body kits (think F&F, NFS, and the rest of 2000s tuner culture). This round, I’ll be supplying you with a replica 1998 Lexus SC300 (2JZ-GE, 5 speed Automatic, VVT). The year of the car is allowed to be set between 1998 and 2010. 2000s tuning tech is fully allowed and encouraged. The body style, chassis, and engine cannot be swapped out for different options, but everything else can be changed to entrant’s spec. Entries will be scored on several factors which will be outlined further down the page, and aesthetic scoring will be done via community vote. Entries open on 2/27/2021 @ 12AM CST, and close 3/13/2021 @12AM CST
.CAR FILE: Kyorg_-_(Your_Name_Here)Clone-_Lexus_LC300_Tuned.car (82.5 KB)
.car file is fully vanilla, so even if you’re running vanilla automation you should be able to participate.
Download the .car file.
Import the car into Automation.
Clone car model and engine family, set desired year
Extremely useful video by @cake_ape documenting this process:
Engine Family Name: BRS1– [forum name]
Engine Variant Name: [engine name]
Car Model Name: BRS1– [forum name]
Car Trim Name: [car name]
Leave the engine as a 2012- this is an issue as a mistake on my part. Unfortunately, fixing it would require everyone to restart and that doesn’t feel necessary.
All mods are allowed (including Borisu’s weights), Running public branch, Submit via Forum DM or Discord DM (@Kyorg#5597)
GENERAL RULES
Cost Limit = $200k - this is only in place to avoid quality cheesing, and should not be used as a guideline.
No Maximum quality, Minimum -9 quality
Suspension Type, Drivetrain, Wheels, Brakes, Aerodynamics, Interior and Suspension Tuning are all allowed
to be changed to entrant’s spec
Four wing/lip maximum
Year is between 1998 and 2010 – bodykit styling should generally follow chosen year.
PARTIAL CARBON/ALUMINUM ALLOWED – NO FULL CARBON, FIBRE GLASS, OR ALUMINUM, NO CHASSIS CHANGES, NO CHANGING CHASSIS QUALITY
BORE, STROKE AND ENGINE FAMILY MATERIALS CANNOT BE CHANGED, VALVE COUNT AND VVL CANNOT BE ADDED. TUNED 2JZ-GE ENGINE REQUIRED
COMFORT MUST BE >1
MAXIMUM ENGINE STRESS OF 10%
NO INVISIBLE OR HIDDEN WINGS
NO CABIN MORPHING, NO TOP OF TRUNK MORPHING, everything else is on the table for morphing. Try to keep it looking like it was derived from the original car.
LEAVE THE ENGINE AS A 2012
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DESIGN PRIORITIES
COST: The maximum cost is 200k. There’s no maximum quality setting for your builds, but keeping your cost lower is better. Push as much performance as you can on as little money as you can muster, and you’ll get big points in this category. The original car costs $40,400; the closer you are to that original number the better.
TRACK TIME IMPROVEMENT: The stock SC300 currently runs the automation test track (in automation) in 2:29:98. Destroy that track time- the faster the AI rounds the track the better. If you can beat your fellow tuners on the track, you’ll get big points in this category.
AESTHETICS: Aesthetic score is decided by community vote. Make a good-looking body kit or livery (or both!) and win up to a 35% boost to overall score (1st place in the community survey) Even if you aren’t the best at tuning, if you make the best-looking car you still have a good shot at winning the challenge; making a good-looking kit will earn you big points across the board.
HORSEPOWER: The stock 2JZ-GE makes 224.9 bhp. Those are rookie numbers, let’s get them up! Having the most horsepower may not always be practical, but its definitely something you can brag about and as such getting big horsepower out of the 2JZ will get you big points in this category.
QUARTER MILE TIME IMPROVEMENT: The stock SC300 runs the quarter mile in 15.78s – while this challenge is primarily aiming to build track cars, winning drag races on the weekends will win you big points in this category. Get that number down.
SPORTINESS IMPROVEMENT: The stock score of 28.9 reflects the SC300’s status as a “luxury” coupe- but we’re building a track car here, so get that number up. You’ll get points for having a good sportiness score.
WEIGHT SAVINGS: The stock SC300 weighs in at 3535lbs – getting this number lower will not only help your track time but is also another bragging point. As such, you’ll get some points for reducing the weight of the car.
RELIABILITY: Try to keep reliability around the original score of 66.1- Big points aren’t gonna be found here but having a decent reliability score may give you a marginal advantage.
DRIVABILITY IMPROVEMENT: The stock score of 50.2 may be difficult to improve on, but the goal is to beat the other tuners and not necessarily the stock score. Getting a good drivability score will get you some points.
COMFORT: Not important. Keep it >1 so you’re not sitting on a literal brick, but any comfort score above 1 isn’t necessary and will not earn you points.
FUEL ECONOMY: Not important. This is a track car, not a daily driver, and the fuel tank is big enough that even with 1 mpg you’ll be able to run some laps.
PRACTICALITY: N/A
OFFROAD: N/A
UTILITY: N/A
PRESTIGE: N/A
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SCORE PENALTIES
These won’t get your entry binned, but they may hurt your score. It may still be worthwhile to take the score hit if it improves your other stats enough to offset.
Drivetrain/Engine Orientation swaps come with 10% overall cost penalty – finding a native SC300 manual transmission or replacing the transmission with one substantially more modern is expensive and it’s not like you can sell the old automatic transmission to recoup costs. Doing a 4WD (or FWD?) swap is equivalently expensive, as is swapping engine mounts.
Changing engine internal materials comes with a 10% overall cost penalty as it requires a full engine rebuild – make use of the already existing forged internals, that’s what this engine is famous for anyway.
Turbo Spool over 3000rpm comes with a 5% sportiness penalty – While it is already factored into drivability, 2JZ turbo spool is notoriously long and aiming to reduce that while achieving high horsepower numbers is ideal.
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BASE STATS
Base Cost: 40400
Base Sportiness: 29
Base Drivability: 50.3
Base Reliability: 66.2
Base Weight: 3537.1lb / 1604kg
Base Automation Test Track Time: 2:29:98
Base Quarter Mile Time: 15.78s
Base Horsepower: 225
Base Transmission: 5 speed Adv. Automatic paired to Longitudinal 2JZ-GE
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Inspiration: https://imgur.com/a/lof2I5B
REMINDER: Entries open at 2/27/2021 @ 12AM CST, and close at 3/13/2021 @12AM CST
