You were heaviest by about 300kg; the auto landaulet top likely contributed all of that and then some, and the car would’ve been even heavier without your aluminium panels.
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Have either of the top two opted out of hosting, by the way? I ask because I opted out in DMs and it wasn’t mentioned, and ABG has made it pretty clear.
They’ve made no indication either way yet.
I cannot host. But thank you for the win! And thank you for such quick results, I believe that is why this challenge exists!
For anyone struggling with emissions, I found three things that helped me:
Lower compression,
Leaner fuel/air mixture,
An aluminum head (?!). Don’t know why that one works, but it does.
I believe that emissions partly is based on how dirty the production of the car is too, and that an alloy head is “cleaner” to produce than a cast iron dito, but I can have understood things wrong.
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I believe it’s that the material absorbs pollutants
An alloy block of any kind (even basic aluminum) will reduce emissions even further, especially when combined with an alloy head - but at the expense of reliability, which is most apparent before 1990 or so.
Lower combustion chamber temperatures reduce NOx production, and aluminum is a better conductor of heat than iron.
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Right but in the manual for Automation they mention that porosity is a factor in the pollutant calculation. Probably shouldn’t be (seems pedantic) and instead it should probably be for the reasons you just mentioned. Same reason reverse-flow cooling on a GM block resulted in lower emissions (better cooling at the head). But Automation may not “see” it that way
We now know that the winner of this round will not be hosting the next one, so @NoahC will be next in line to host unless he tells us otherwise.
Given how long it’s been… Either we need @abg7 to post a thread or @SheikhMansour to release more rankings. I sure can’t host.
As previously stated, I am capable of hosting the next round, for sure - however, @NoahC has not yet told us whether or not he can do so. I am assuming he won’t want to host the next round, given that it’s been 5 days since the results were posted.
Since Noah’s AWOL, you have the right to prepare QFC3
I am ready to accept my responsibility of overseeing QFC3 and am currently evaluating some ideas for rule sets. Just give me some time before I launch the next round.
Newsflash: QFC3 is up - click here!
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Sorry People! I have had a mess of a real world engine rebuild for my garden tractor and completely forgot to check in. Thank you and please continue.
Now I know the reason why you couldn’t host QFC3 - you had to do some maintenance on your farm tractor. Even if you had known about it, the scale of the task may well have been enough to put you off hosting duties for the latest round.
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