I just haven’t gotten around to finishing off my dragster designs. So here’s the original Boss I powered by a Boss 432 Big Block from 1969 with 2015 internals.
Having seen the last 1320’ battle, this will be knocked off rather quickly. Of this, I am certain.
Here is one to fill the ranks until it happens, however.
This is the Midnight Madness, a custom, one-off, specialty car, purpose built for the strip. 600 horsepower and 440 pound-feet delivered from a 5.0L modern OHV naturally aspirated V8, revving to 8300 rpm, and delivered to the rear wheels for awesome smoky burnout. (and who doesn’t love awesome smoky burnouts???) Even with all of this wondrous power, it still has enough reliability to put it out on the street as a daily driver after passing inspection (which is just ludicrous, right?).
This pulls the 1085.5kg (2400 lbs for you Yankees) through the quarter mile track at Tulsa in 11.13 seconds at 147 mph (10.98 calculated in game at 147mph) and looks fine as hell doing it. Enjoy!
For the record, I don’t typically do rear wheel drive cars, but for this, I simply dropped the RWD driveline into my normally AWD roadster, squished the front tires, stuck slicks on it, and took all the front downforce off. Oh, and swapped the gearbox.
Of course AWD is faster. The AWD hooks up much quicker than FR can. You’re basically launching from the front tires where the weight is, then pushing with the back tires once they gain their traction. It’s considered bad form to even compare them, unless there is a substantial difference in power output, like an AWD Subaru 2.5L posting an equal times with a 9.3L RWD monster with 10000 hp on a blown nitrous engine (probably theoretically possible, but highly unlikely to ever happen).
It seems unlikely, also, that the car you posted would be much faster using those front tires. haha
EDIT: @OP, it seems reasonable that the year of the car should also be posted. Most will probably be 2015 (or current year as time progresses on), but the older cars should get a shout out as well! And, of course, there are those who will build the cars of the future, using all of the latest tech to gain that .01 seconds off of their times.
EDIT2: Also, which time on the Tulsa track is the actual 1/4 time? I see multiple times being displayed.
EDIT3: It says one car per person, but can that car be refined after submission? Or is it one shot until you fall off of the bottom of the list?
I did mention in my list of changes to the car that I squished the front tires. I found reducing tire width up front (getting rid of the nice, wide, sticky tires that make the car actually handle on tracks) to improve track time when steering isn’t important.
Only reason I mentioned the AWD would have been faster is because I’ll willingly admit I’m crap at tuning RWD cars. I build for track performance in cars like that, and drag times weren’t overly important to the original design. I’ll also admit that, yes, it is bad form to compare them, and that’s why I decided to make a RWD version, though mention that I typically build AWD and really don’t know what I’m doing with RWD. I also used a vehicle that could be sold through Automation’s markets tab (granted, under the Hyper category) to avoid making a 100% race-tuned monster that has no business seeing a street, though with 1000 horsepower, it still shouldn’t be on the streets.
Still, I feel it was a decent attempt at the quarter mile. Won’t make any further attempts at it, personally, even if we’re able to.
Wow. That’s really good for a 3L Turbo. I built a turbo variant of my Boss 432, but it wouldn’t hook because it was well over 1000 HP and we don’t have drag radials. I have a few other designs that might work well though. I’ll be doing some tinkering as time goes on. I’m going to leave my 1969 muscle car up for a while.
That was the entire point! It sounds like it would be fast as hell, but probably wouldn’t make it to the 60’ before the underpowered (in this race) Subaru made it to the other end!!
That’s not a dragster, Luilakkie!! That’s a sled-bomb!!! Hurling that much weight down the strip at those speeds is begging for a disaster. hahaha Good job!
I present my car for the list. Havent messed with this car sense before the update. This car did hold the record for the fastest front engine rear wheel drive car in the game.
Weighing in a 3559 pounds, it runs the 1/4 mile on tulsa at a cool 9.63. Will mess with it this more this weekend when I have time.
Edit. The very bottom pic is this update, top one is before.
Decided to stay up and mess around with it. Weighing in at just under 4,000 pounds, the 2000 Vanlvo Q40 with modern tech runs the 1/4 mile at 9.30 in game and 9.47 on tulsa.
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