Yeah, in the US, 87 octane (91 ron) is the most common, and 89 octane (95 ron) and 91 octane (98 ron) are readily available. I didn’t know that Europe didn’t get 87 oct!
This is why most of my engine series either have a (D)omestic and (E)uropean tune, or a series will ONLY be available in one area or the other, depending on fuel.
While AKI 89/91 (RON 95/98) are readily available in the US, most people will only fill up on 87. So a lot of people blow up their nice expensive turbo and/or high compression engines out of ignorance. Carmakers have started learning from that mistake and now often (as of about 2013) dual-map the ECUs for both 89 and 91 (95 and 98), and the car reads the anti-knock sensor after each fillup to figure out what grade is in the tank, and uses the appropriate map.
Just wondering, but how do we add a Trailer Hitch/Coupler to our Automation creations? Just made a Truck & Exported it to BeamNG but can’t connect it to a trailer due to the Truck not having a Hitch/Coupler?
Ahh right, because I’m Europe smaller turbocharged cars are more common so 89 AKI is what they use. Makes sense now!
@LordLetto
Thanks for pointing that out.
SUV bodies are seperate and allowed as well.
OP will be updated accordingly.
Attaching a trailer can be done by coupling the trailer node to a node on the towing bodyshell.
@Watermelon3878
This is 2017, not the 70s…
a vehicle should be capable of that by now.
Also, i am using the Automation-given value.
@HighOctaneLove
Yes. This is a european round.
95 RON is the normal fuel in germany, with 98 available at almost every fuel pump/ gas station for around 10 cents extra per litre (0.1 € extra).
Cars tuned for 91 RON will still be fueled with 95 since 91 is not available.
@Leedar
If your car has a catalytic converter and a muffler, you are good.
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Apparently there is an issue where turbos are making less power in BeamNG form compared to their original Automation selves. This may have to be taken into consideration for the towing tests…
Erm…
the first idea i have is that i check the entry for the power generated and ask then if any alteration are wished to be done, leading to a resubmit of the car with a different setup…
that issue comes highly unexpected though and i do not really know how to solve it at the moment…
Car_Spy_Shot-LLA_SUV
Caught at a testing range is an LLA SUV of sorts. An image is shown below
Unrelated, but related note: I have found no way to add a tow bar to the cars in BeamNG, you may have to do a utility test instead
Ctrl+middle click on one of the nodes in the back (for now it works)
didn’t realise that worked, gonna have to make a note of not to use my fake tow-bar, it breaks off as it is made from a mirror lol
it looks weird, but makes sure that nothing breaks off when towing…
If anyone has an idea on how to handle the BeamNG turbo issue, please tell me.
I’m trying to work the issue out as we speak, having no luck tho
It doesn’t look like the issue has a quick solution, at least thus far it doesn’t. Presumably it’s a calculation issue in Beam’s engine, but not much more is known.
The best thing that can be done is take a few turbo cars, within the contest as they appear, to Beam and see if the power loss is shared across the range of cars. That way we might find the loss percentage…
sounds like a good idea.
Time to wait for the first entries then.
These wont come until after tomorrow evening (in 23 hours).
Then the ruleset will be fixed and entries can roll in.
So the trailer + car that is going to be towed weighs 4200 lbs. Does it matter if the game says the car can’t tow that much? Because it will in BeamNG, but the game says my vehicle only tows 2600 lbs.
The amount of towing stated by automation is greatly underestimated.
This overestimation is even worse at speed.
During the preliminaries, this value will be of minor consideration, if at all.
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So…is it high importance or not?
I understand it’s your first time running a challenge but your contradictions aren’t good…and as for requiring BeamNG… 
to make it clear (as clear as i can)
it is of high importance, but using a value known to be flawed does not make much sense to me.
by “little consideration” i initially meant the value of Towing capacity, NOT Utility.
But since Utility IS pretty much Towing, i have to correct myself and say that the Automation Towing capacity is of course of HIGH importance.
The value does not have to reach just as high as the 1900kg of the actual towed weight, according to the towing surplus you get when going into BeamNG
So you don’t want an Automation towing weight of 4200lbs? Why give us that figure as HIGH IMPORTANCE when you are talking about it being flawed???
You want me to get a vehicle that has a towing value from a game that I do not own?
Surely the name of this round should be CSR77 - Ready, Set, GO (buy another game to be able to join in).
Looks like I can’t compete so I’ll await CSR78.
we might be talking past each other at this point
a higher towing value in automation is obviously better, but it does not have to be at least 4200lb since that would require a stupidly heavy vehicle.
in BeamNG, you can tow quite a bit more than Automation says you can.
that is what i meant by “towing surplus”.
In short:
HIGHER towing is better, but
it DOES NOT need to tow 4200lb according to automation
it WILL be tested with 4200lb in BeamNG if the car makes it into the finals.