Journey of Ownership 3C - Bahnstormer 1978 [FINISHED]

[HowlerAutomotive]

I quote. Bolding mine.

@moroza

While I wlll scrutineer… yes, we’ve made that a word now… your engineering, at the end of the day, unless otherwise specified, if it works, it works; your entry will be judged more for what it does than how. The caveat is that “what it does” and “[if] it works” have a broad meaning, taking into account Minmaxing (boosting listed stats at the expense of unlisted ones to a degree implausible for a mass-market car in 1978), and to a lesser extent, Cheesing (boosting stats in a historically unlikely/implausible way that doesn’t hurt other stats). Otherwise, if you do weird shit under the hood in a way that ultimately works, isn’t prohibited, and isn’t minmaxing, the verdict will likely be “more power to you and your clever innovation.”

This means, among other things, that sliders with arbitrary numbers, including but not limited to quality and airflow, are fair game.

The airflow slider has an inherent penalty on car reliability, and the car is above the recommended reliability value regardless. The number itself, based on your guidelines, I considered to be one of the arbitrary ones. I could easily have come to almost-identical results without using the slider.
Good reading, but would have preferred to drop out for some other reason.