Must remain 1989. That was the last year any parts were produced.
[quote=“strop”]This is an excellent premise (not just because of the hilariously dystopian communist scenario). If I wasn’t running the BSLL I wanted to run a “tune this car” race but you’ve beat me to it!
Also I thought the car was bloody fast around the track with a time of 1:22, then I realised that was actually 122 i.e. 2:02 
Question: when you say no body material changes, does this include quality of chassis, body and fixtures?
Question 2: can the year of parts be changed? Say I wanted to perform an engine swap, for example, or are the years locked?[/quote]
I was considering doing a more “take this engine, hotrod it and build a car for it” type of comepetition
[quote=“Manche”]
[quote=“strop”]This is an excellent premise (not just because of the hilariously dystopian communist scenario). If I wasn’t running the BSLL I wanted to run a “tune this car” race but you’ve beat me to it!
Also I thought the car was bloody fast around the track with a time of 1:22, then I realised that was actually 122 i.e. 2:02
Question: when you say no body material changes, does this include quality of chassis, body and fixtures?
Question 2: can the year of parts be changed? Say I wanted to perform an engine swap, for example, or are the years locked?[/quote]
I was considering doing a more “take this engine, hotrod it and build a car for it” type of comepetition[/quote]
I considered doing something like that, I but wanted a little more restrictive of a challenge.
People build hot rod 1000hp super cars for fun everyday. How often do people have the chance to engage in some friendly competition racing in an underground cup in a glorious communist dystopia with a hyper-limited budget?
I feel like mashing 2 engines toghther to create a flatplane v8 
If you can fit it in the budget, fit a 10l v8 in there 
the Comrade Clunker has decent engine bay space.
The funny thing is just how mutually exclusive many of those things are. There are plenty of 1000bhp cars but hardly any tournaments for them. On the other hand, there are heaps of limited budget limited tech tournaments, but this is the first communist underground cup I have seen 
You see, there cannot be any aboveground Communist cup because 24 people using the exact same car is boring.
Try telling that to Bernie Ecclestone.
But homologation makes for more exciting racing! LOL
How so?
The concept of making a car, based off a race-car, that is still mostly unobtainable (some notable exceptions), seems slightly useless. 
Unless of course, you are referring to the more technical definition of complying to the set regulations of a racing series.
[quote=“np1993”]
If you can fit it in the budget, fit a 10l v8 in there the Comrade Clunker has decent engine bay space.[/quote]
so I can smuggle a decadent capitalisy engine? or perhaps a high end soviet hardware? cool…
[quote=“Manche”]
If you can fit it in the budget, fit a 10l v8 in there the Comrade Clunker has decent engine bay space.
so I can smuggle a decadent capitalisy engine? or perhaps a high end soviet hardware? cool…[/quote]
If its fits the budget and meets the other requirements (moneym sound and overall reliability etc) you could sneak a chevy crate motor in there. Or a turbo’d Lada motor…?
Lets say your cousin Uri can hook you up
I am using a GAZ aluminium V8 5.5 from the limos…
I am interested to see how it works out!
I am currently playing around with a Lada-2108 EVA Turbo 1860 cc 16 valve I4 for fun
340+ hp on ron 91 390 once cat removed…
If it fits the sound requirements and reliability, slap in in a Clunker and submit it!
Edit: Make sure the engine year is 1989, same as the chasis.
[quote=“Jakgoe”]
How so?
The concept of making a car, based off a race-car, that is still mostly unobtainable (some notable exceptions), seems slightly useless.
Unless of course, you are referring to the more technical definition of complying to the set regulations of a racing series.[/quote]
Ah, yeah, I was facetiously referring to the latter definition there. I don’t actually hold that opinion. As for the former, the only use I’ve found for it is to take those cars in Gran Turismo and mod them way past the limits of the race versions… like taking a Nissan R390GT homologation model and whacking a drag spec turbo on it to boost it to 833hp
EDIT: right, it’s on. Let’s see how many of these top gear test track times I can beat without getting sent to the Gulag. Evgeny wanted an edge, an edge we will give him!
It was a lot of hard work for Uri to sneak parts into the People’s Republic of Comrade from the land of Imperialist Capitalist evil. Parts that looked almost exactly the same as the parts that one found plentiful in Comrade, made by the people, for the people. Yet once it had been balanced according to the spec of Evgeny’s secret contacts, he knew he had a true track weapon on his hands. Economy had gone out the window, yes, but he had a truly strong car that could crush the competition in a very uncomradely spirit, now that it was faster than one of those fancy Lotuses or even those Porsches that one could only plaster posters to the underside of the trapdoor to the basement of his Government Approved Single Residence. And all for just under five thousand dollars, and just discreet enough for him to avoid an eternity in the Gulags.
Uri is a comrade among comrades, truly a man of the people! Lets hope it is not he who is sent to the Gulag!
I would destroy any posters you may have, Government mandated house checks are occurring as mandatory, biweekly.
so you are hotrodding the engine instead of a swap? I thought about the same but I dont really like boosted engines… LAG and the GAZ v8 could get me more juice
Three hundred and… holy mother of boost, Strop is going to kill us all! Urm… I mean, comrade horseguy’s decadent western system will surely fall to my proper party approved pushrods.