bigger bodies and ladder frames
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Lol i can get economy and utility but Drivability and comfort are killing me.
Itās a great round
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Iāve made several that make it all the numbers, but what Iām having trouble with is that average reliabilityā¦ Add power steering to make the comfort and drivability and all the sudden you are looking at 69 reliabilityā¦ Ugh.
Gearbox tech my friend
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I donāt understand why adding power steering drops the reliability so much. It will drop around 3 points, which is rediculous. Iāve owned around 20 vehicles with power steering most of them 10 years or older and Iāve never had a problem with the power steering from any of them. It doesnāt seem as realistic as most of the rest of the game is. But besides that I do have an entry, Iām just making sure it as good on the quarter as I can make it.
I guess it depends on where i the world u are. I have never owned a car that at some stage didnāt have a leaking power steering hose. Even my brand new sprint has already had a steering hose and intercooler coolant hose replaced due to seeping and itās just done 11000km.
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As phale already stated, ladder frame, leaf springs, hard tyres and automatic box with big body should get you well above 90. Making this thing fast is another storyā¦
Now we know final rules regarding quality and consumption Iāll be sending in my Detonator soon 
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my current car has a 12.9 V12 turbo, but JUUUUUUUUUUUUUST too thirsty
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12.9 V12 turbo too thirsty
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hahaha go figure
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I donāt know if this will be my final entry, but I just wanted to stare at everyone.
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well, iām down to a piddly 9.6L Turbo, but itās a grunty beast.
Amount of torque at idle and engine size have a significant bearing on utility.
Size of tyres also.
In hindshight I may have gimped my own entry - I only tried one body and it looks like a different one to everyone else - I may have had to make to many concessions to utility as a result.
HTF do you people manage to make monster engines like this economical enough? Mine is a 6.3L NA.
download a couple of my crates from the DSD thread, lean fuel mid/high range timing and careful camshaft to compression management, or a small turbo with a large A/R
Iām running a 7.6L NA so far. Tuning the torque curve for good utility is the hard part, not so much the economy. Iāll likely try a couple more turbo engines, but I figure there wonāt be much of an advantage for a turbo with the rules for DRC9.
There wasnāt much in it between NA and boosted - NA was much easier to get the desired utility without smashing yourself on price.
Even with that my max was 88.
The other thing is fuel consuption, when I do more economic engine, I lose utility because power to weight ratio. I really hate utility. I drive a 1.0L Ford Ka, I donāt care for utility!!! 
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turboās the size of Donald Trumpās hands.
Those must be Yuge turbos.
I havenāt started on my truck yet (damn IRL commitments), but Iām curious if my typical truck formula will serve me well based on all the lamentations in this thread.
