Bad link, it says I need to make an account.
Link fixed!
And survey done 
Thanks everybody! It was a learning curve with it being my first competition and some tweaking had to be done here and there in regard to rules (the first poll :-p) I had a blast. Hopefully everyone else did as well!
Wow! Excellent job reaper, you took me by surprise and taught me something about the uses of an i6 in such a situation. It must have been cheaper and therefore more ability to put improvements elsewhere! That’s an outstanding time for the budget.
However I am personally most glad at nabbing the overpowered award hehe. To be honest the engine , while the size of a v8 supercar touring block, had at least a little room left. I just kind of overdeveloped it 
I’m unsurprised with my result as I chose to closely model my car on what could have been theoretically feasible for your average Comrade citizen to achieve. Since my competition company has Communist history links but a more relaxed attitude towards automobile ownership, I used that link to make up a plausible back-story to justify any changes I made. I also kept the engine bay relatively the same so that if an inspector looked in the bay they’d still be (relatively) unaware of the changes (especially since he has to drive the car to work everyday, 
).
I did an alternate variant that used only the clunker and part changes that could have been done by the owner and that was at least 8 sec faster around the track than the stock car!
Basically I had so much fun in my self created story that the result is irrelevant; my reward was in the participation 
I’m looking forward to more of these comps as having a roleplay element really puts spice into what can become a painfully formulaic challenge! 
[quote=“strop”]Wow! Excellent job reaper, you took me by surprise and taught me something about the uses of an i6 in such a situation. It must have been cheaper and therefore more ability to put improvements elsewhere! That’s an outstanding time for the budget.
However I am personally most glad at nabbing the overpowered award hehe. To be honest the engine , while the size of a v8 supercar touring block, had at least a little room left. I just kind of overdeveloped it [/quote]
Originally I had written off I6s completely due to their length restricting the bore size needed for a bigger engine and would have entered with what was currently my best engine, an NA V8, but when np1993 said that there were no I6s I gave a serious attempt at one out just to see what they would be like. The turbo I6 was a lot better Than I expected because it could just about squeeze into the engine bay with a sensible bore and stroke while costing way less than the turbo V8 because it only used one turbo. Also, because it had 6 cylinders feeding the turbo rather than 4, it could cope with the cheaper bearing far more easily. The resulting engine was actually about 30bhp down on my NA V8 but because it was so much lighter it was a lot faster.
Whatever the science and thought process behind it, it worked!
I’m definitely going to be looking into the i6es a bit more in future, previously I’ve had trouble with them and don’t think I’ve fully tapped into their potential in all situations. Exciting!
I personally like them a lot of great cars had I6’s under the hood, and most of them are turbo’d.
The Molniya was mine. I utterly failed.
[size=85](Maybe stick to track cars rather than hot hatches in future?)[/size]
I tired to reach you via PM. Your car was perfect aside from the budget 
I couldn’t get the cost down below about 8000
This is why Banks Motorsports is decadent Western company not suited to ideals of people of Comrade. 
A month of nothing but turnips and raw onion diet and a few weeks of government mandated retraining could fix that
He can choose from the ministry of love, or the ministry of wealth 
which is to say, avoid the ministry of love at all costs!
No, anything but retraining! I’ll reveal my suppliers, ANYTHING!!!
Oh you will will you? Maybe cousin Uri has farm of hungry pigs he needs you to feed.
that is, WITH YOUR CORPSE 
Strop knows! riley you can be sure cousin uri knows a comrade with a pig farm.