Where do I find the Engineering time for the car, I found the production units in the overview but I dont think thats what were after.
Simply click on the Detailed Stats tab. You can find out a breakdown of your carâs stats there, including engineering time. It must be < 150 for the engine, and < 275 for the whole car. I managed both with my test car 
My captains pick is to make the competition FWD only. Why? Because RWD econoboxes just donât exist anywhere in 2014-16, so there!!! 
Anyway, hereâs my entrant⌠The 2016 Bogliq Kitten GRi 
nooooooooooâŚthere goes my RR econdragboxâŚ
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First Order Automotive sulked in a corner.
Then we turned the engine through 90 degreesâŚmashed the rear wheel arches in and pulled out the front wheel arches.
And voila!
The Oook!
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wait, which body with a 4 doors that has RR config? not that i wonât allow it.
also, i can still participate in this right? Right?
I didnât know.
I just wasnât prepared.
I had heard about them of course. Mates at work had been telling me about the car journalists who were bedridden for a month after reviewing one of the new Crawlington Slowboat shitboxes, because of the torturous seating arrangements. And how those journalists were actually the lucky ones, because others, who had gotten as far as starting the engine had almost immediately spun off into the nearest wall where worse injuries ensued.
Iâd heard about the looks, too. They tried to warn me, but I didnât believe them. Fool. Arrogant fool I was. Paul came into the office tuesday last week, white in the face. Heâd lost his briefcase and cellphone. Just sat there, catatonic for half an hour. Said heâd seen something indescribable go past on his drive here. He takes the bus now every morning, with his eyes closed. I thought he was just weird. I didnât understand. But now I do.
As I was stepping out of the Chow-Mart yesterday, it was there. My eyes picked it out in the middle of the parking lot like they would have picked out a burning sheep in a flock of regular ones. Like they would have picked out a void in the space time continuum. It was red. It was⌠I donât have the words.
Terror got a hold of me and I ran to my car like a toddler running through a dark hallway to get to the comfort of a lit up room. I fumbled and dropped the keys twice, poured my foodstuffs onto the back seat and got in. I couldnât see it from there. Some primal part of me wondered whether it had seen me. Ridiculous when I say it now. Itâs just a car. It is.
As I was pulling out to the main road, thinking it was over, I saw it pulling out behind me. I saw it in my rear view window and yelped. My hands were white knuckled around the steering wheel. Somebody had designed this. But why? And worse, somebody else had paid money for it. I couldnât bring myself to look at the driver. I didnât want to know. Part of me thought it would be some kind of monster and the other was equally afraid that it was an otherwise normal looking human.
I gathered the scraps of my bravery, every ounce of manliness I had left, pressed down the clutch and pushed the car into first. I had more than enough power. I could beat this, I thought. Or run from it maybe, it is all hazy now. I can only see the headlights when I close my eyes. The light went green.
And it demolished me. Swerving, screeching and sliding every which way, it left me in the dust. A broken man. Within seconds it disappeared behind the next bend up ahead and was long gone when I got there.
When I got home, my wife thought Iâd gotten bad news from my doctor or something. I told her we should start taking the bus. With our eyes closed.
#Crawlington Slowboat FFS
âIncredibly hard to look at.â
Splashington post
âOh⌠Oh Go⌠Why would you do this? Who thought this would be⌠Why?â
Innocent bystander
âAAAaaaaaaaaa! Enough! I Yield!.â
Ctulhu
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on an unrelated note, to whom do i send the files to? iâm not entirely sure who is running this round 
thanks
I already sent in my entry, but can someone please confirm I got the rules right.
@koolkei made the basic rules.
@AirJordan added a rule for standard safety with 0 quality slider
@HighOctaneLove added the FWD only rule.
So all of these are in effect⌠right?
Gday guys I have some news.
With my working schedule getting larger by the day ATM after this next round I will be relenting the racemaster position.
I would like to see this challenge continue and in the future I will be available to host again, therefor I am looking for applicants for the position.
The position requires looking after the forum page and taking on entrants PMâs as well as racing the cars and posting small blogs about the cars for the Champions pick.
It is a highly rewarding job and very fun.
Please PM if you are interested if there is more than one party that putâs their hand up we will vote as a community.
Bangin gears out Darkshines
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i mustâve missed it but.
FWD ONLY?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
that kinda ruled out some of my initial intention with the rules
wouldnât you be interested to seeing AWD 30MPG Dragster that cost $12000??? 
anyone got their car anywhere near 13.5s? cause i sure am FAAAAARRRRRRRR from that. i mean slower, like iâm still getting 14s
Iâm way past that Iâm probably not going to enter though, cause my car is basically the same as Howlerâs, and he did it a lot better 
well then. i just proved that iâm shit under my own rules.
the irony.
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People asked for it, and we deliver. Allow us to present: The all-new Birch Apex!
It has a snarling 2.8 litre V6 under the hood, and its power is delivered through a 7-speed manual gearbox to the front wheels. Wheelspin is expected.
Interior is nothing special, but youngsters (the people we try to market this beast to) donât care, right?
And we stole something. Again! This time we âborrowedâ the taillight design from the Mazda RX-8. The back end in general looks also a bit Mazda-y, donât you think?
Our design team was pressured to keep the price low, and they did! At the cost of⌠All safety features and driving aids. Except ABS. Because itâs okay to have ABS when itâs icy and you go to a corner WAY too fast.
Birch Motors - Perfomance at the cost of everyoneâs safety.
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I just noticed the typo in the heading, apparently the deadline was 1810 years ago. I think I was a little late. 
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