Basically, the car fails in a couple of areas. It’s a bit spooky to drive in the wet (below 50 driveability) and it’s not as comfortable as it could be (below 35 comfort). It also, for 2016, drinks like a fish so I have to find a way to save fuel while improving handling and comfort!
I tried a N/A model but it juuust wasn’t fast enough
Oh, it also costs 84K with a 100% mark-up so it’s a bargain for what it achieves!
that is a loooooot of power haha. I suspect your car’s got more fuel consumption largely due to the fact it’s quite large, after all, I’m running 9.6L/100km and 1470kg with a specific output of a bit over 200hp/L myself.
I was testing an AWD version of the Shelob in the hopes that the grip would make use of all the power available… Unfortunately I didn’t start a new engine variant so my RWD Shelob got some free upgrades too…
New RRP of $94,000 and just squeaks by on PU’s but it’s now even spookier in the wet, the interior is having a hard time keeping the driver in place and the fuel economy still misses internal targets!
Imagine if I’d entered this car in CSR 23… I might have won!
@strop see? Everyone is making it sub-7 minute with budget to spare…
My car is at 7:15 but I think I simply used the wrong body as a platform for this challenge.
You’re not alone. I started off using the large 2002 MR body, and now i’m stuck at low 7:04 with lousy reliability (54 ish) and about 1000 hp to 1575 kgs… I just can’t get below 7:03
And yet i have good cornering (1.31 front and 1.41 back) and a top speed of 360 and good acceleration (2.3/1.1.) and 48/79 DR/SP.
If i look to the other cars it should break the 7 minute mark (and it does with slicks) but i can’t get it below w/o
I built quite a few cars that looked like they had better performance numbers than the one I posted above but kept falling short. I just kept trying different bodies and engines until I found a combo that worked well. You’ll get it soon too.
For the lolz, I can’t tune track suspension for crap, but I can tune for cheap power, so here’s my take on the cheap hyper car, 6:52 ring time, 15.6 mpg, F-AWD 1 seater, and a 10 liter twin turbo pushrod V8 with 1535 horsepower. and it can sell pretty well with a %111
You have just made me remember my entry for CSR22 - it had that exact configuration. However, given that it is possible to make a mid-engined AWD car achieve even better results, how can this be achieved?
Mid-engine is better inherently balanced for sport. Notice how 90% of supercars and almost all hypercars are mid engine? There’s a reason for it.
However, F-AWD responds well to raw brute force, as the AWD takes away some of the problems FR would otherwise have, notably wheelspin. But, a downside is that AWD cars are heavier, and as a result, a MR car has simply less bulk to drag around while a F-AWD car is usually fighting diminishing returns. Sure, a bigger engine makes F-AWD faster, but it adds more weight, and it doesn’t usually take that long for you to start adding horsepower and not going much faster.
As for M-AWD, it’ll beat F-AWD for the most part, but a well tuned MR will beat a poorly-tuned M-AWD car every single time.
