I’m pretty sure the suspension can be changed. I’m also not sure about chassis quality changes so confirmation on that would be great
So currently as I’m making my car, the game has decided to screw me over and now my car doesn’t move on the test track ._.
Double check the rpm on your car, the stock clunkers rev limiter was set too high and the valves float.
And as for quality, you can adjust all oft he quality slider! If it was negative it means its in an ill state of repair (factory quality is poor), improving the quality means you spend some time grinding off rust and welding fresh steel in. As far as suspension goes, the clunker was designed very simply, allowing ease of aftermarket suspension upgrades.
POLL RESULTS ARE IN!
The people of Comrade have voted (strange yes for a communist dystopia) and here are the results:
The people voted 16-7 against the use of alternate octane fuels. Players MUST USE regular leaded fuel in the race.
The people voted 14-4 against being allowed to heavily modify the body. You MUST USE the stock 1989 clunker body shape (quality sliders, suspension, and fixtures may all be changed still, just as before)
These rules are concrete and not exceptions will not be made. This may make some of your submissions illegal, however no fear, the deadline for submission is not until Nov 29th. So feel free to make the modifications you need and resubmit your cars to race.
Oh! I thought that was just manufacturer standard. This does change my stance on whether to change the quality of my body, if need be.
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Oh! I thought that was just manufacturer standard. This does change my stance on whether to change the quality of my body, if need be.[/quote]
Think of it as massaging out some bumps/scrape, applying body filler, welding in reinforcement or grinding off rust, all very reasonable modifications that are realistic. Many Clunkers left the factory with less then desirable quality control.
Ok, me and Uri just managed to build the best Clunker ever, with a 3.5 Liter DAOHC V8 making 291hp, and awesome fixed up chassis with double wishbone suspension, plus pure Seishido styling ('88 Achernar lights and grilles stuck on the regular bodywork 
). This is truly the People’s Racer, a racer that can get around the track in around 1:35, i won’t tell you the exact time 
But what of manufacturing by the people, for the people? Where is the love for one’s Comrade!? 
That being said, Evgeny immediately set about to applying liberal amounts of elbow grease. He, for one, had the true Comrade spirit when it came to effort. As a result, the car was that much faster again, both in a straight line and around the track! With in fair excess of 400bhp and supercar level cornering ability, he could now comfortably outrun some of his secret capitalist cabriolet compact sports car idols.
Jakob Paren… (yes a russification of my own name) has reciieved the news that further changes were allowed in his Clunker, so he got busy. he ditched the Lame caburetor in favor of this mysterious device called “Electrinic fuel injection” He thought to himself “I never guessed that cars would have computers one day” using the very same intake manifold he fitted the EFI after hours of trying to figure the device out…
and while at it he took the font springs from the recently totaled limo along with the front discs
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[quote=“Manche”]Jakob Paren… (yes a russification of my own name) has reciieved the news that further changes were allowed in his Clunker, so he got busy. he ditched the Lame caburetor in favor of this mysterious device called “Electrinic fuel injection” He thought to himself “I never guessed that cars would have computers one day” using the very same intake manifold he fitted the EFI after hours of trying to figure the device out…
and while at it he took the font springs from the recently totaled limo along with the front discs[/quote]
^ Is this your updated submission?
yes
Ah, I’ve just realised that I misread the rules and need 55 for reliability, not 45. This puts a rather large spanner in the works for my otherwise rather excellent car
Anyone willing to come public with their times?
you can sneak your reliability up by ‘improving’ the quality sliders on your body/fixtures and chasis.
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you can sneak your reliability up by ‘improving’ the quality sliders on your body/fixtures and chasis.[/quote]
Yes, but when I have pennies to spend that isn’t the greatest way of improving the reliability. Thankfully only a small engine modification was required to get things working again.
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you can sneak your reliability up by ‘improving’ the quality sliders on your body/fixtures and chasis.
Yes, but when I have pennies to spend that isn’t the greatest way of improving the reliability. Thankfully only a small engine modification was required to get things working again.[/quote]
some of the fixtures can be improved and actually save you money. (somehow) its not much but like 50$ helps
I would also be very interested in hearing some times, especially from those of you at the high 300 or low 400 bhp mark
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some of the fixtures can be improved and actually save you money. (somehow) its not much but like 50$ helps[/quote]
I’d tried all the quality sliders and put them in their cheapest positions already. There really wasnt that much power sacrificed to get the reliability up to where it needed to be for the current test car, so its all good now
I’m not hugely adverse to sharing my times (because I suck and I’m never going to win), but I have to ask this question of those asking for times. And I ask this respectfully, not trying to be an ass about it, but…
Why would you even ask such a thing while submissions are still being accepted? Clearly you put anyone who posts their time (and anyone with similar times) at a clear disadvantage because you are giving yourself a known benchmark to try to beat. Which then will lead to those people being forced to take more time to tune their cars again more to try to beat the new benchmark.
I spent a good couple hours last night re-tuning the crap out of my clunker to eke out every hundredth of a second I could within the budget. The time necessary to get even more out of it will grow exponentially, as will frustration that it has to be done.
Will I re-tune my Clunker if someone posts their time? No. Because honestly I don’t know the secrets that everyone else seems to know here to get the insane maximum out of a given displacement.
Now… I will personally post my times if Reaper or Jakgoe can give me a good, rational explanation to do so during the middle of design/submission phase.
Submissions are being accepted up until the 29th. It’s your call if you want to post times, however I agree with VicVictory, it may dishearten some people who have yet to submit, or drive others to work even harder to beat a benchmark.
If people start posting times and sending in 10th and 11th revisions of their car because somebody posted a time of blah, and now they rebuilt their car to score an ‘blah’ minus 0.01 I might have to cut off how many revisions I will accept. I know some revisions were for technicalities, or modifications to be legal but its becoming a hassle to go through the list of submissions, see which ones is current and updating my records.
I have a pretty slick spreadsheet with everyone’s specs ranging from weight, money spent, fuel mileage and power to weight ratios that I will post after the race results (with participants consent of course). its quite the hassle to peoples data entries.
You make a very good point there. I was thinking about sharing my time to get the ball rolling, but I think I will just save that for results day. That way we will only have the frustration of the automation magician’s times on results day.
As for data sharing, go ahead. I’ll probably upload my car to this thread once the results are up anyway