probably the small i4 gonna get beaten by engine that have more displacement and piston. to be honest is hard to pass 250hp with under 2l i4 without a lot of quality slider boost and make the engine setting agressive.
my engine at least need minimum 6 of quality slider on each tab just to reach 247hp and 9500rpm(with titanium rod) since the side effect of high rpm that hurt reliability and valve float plus the header cant handle it without racing header just because to small. it pretty much explain with the engine itself the car would be cost about 20,500 and it still cant go down to 4:40 time mark
quite salty about i being too purist here but i gonna accept the result since the limits of small block engine pretty much clear when i observe other entrant
Yeah tbh I too should have gone 2L i4, I think that was the main difference, instead I sacrificed reliability because of having to have an astronomical redline so I had to push up the tech sliders to keep up. Which made the car more expensive, and since I didnāt have natural torque from displacement I had to be a bit harder on the turbo which probably cost me some drivability. Iām willing to bet that Enryās running a LOT less boost and AR ratio than I am.
Please donāt be mad, I love NA too and I wanted a NA car to win but no-one found the sweet spot without exotic materials!
What puzzled me most was everyone who used aluminium over AlSi. AlSi is cheaper and easier to manufacture than Aluminium so there were profits to be had that went begging. Iām kinda amused at my ability to generate controversy depite trying to be as impartial as possible!
Well, Iāve put my entry as on the āopen sourceā car thread so you or anyone can modify it to beat winning entries Haruna Downhill time and performance stats. NA or otherwise. I think I should have probably used a larger engine too but I had already built that 1.6L turbo which performed rather well.
No surprise that the top three were all powered by a turbo four - in your eyes, it struck the best balance between cost and power. After seeing the results I have to agree with you as well.
Company Lore. I used the AluStar V6, which hadnāt yet been updated to an AlSi variant. I mean, seriously, look at the year the engine started production, thatās just how Iāve been with engines lately. While I often do make new engines for the CSR, I sometimes try to use one I already had, and the AluStar V6 just felt right. Granted, I went typical Storm on power, although not full Storm or Iād have both blown the budget and the power cap out of the water.
so far, with weight reduction, more extreme retune, and another quality slider i still only able to cut to 4:41:50. i can push more but the engine pretty much at limit due budget. and of course change the titanium rod with normal i beam rod. the fastest NA that i see is now 4:39 but thats with 2.3L i6 i think
Quite simply, the CSR7.
As far as I can tell, it costs less than Phaleās entry, and is less than a second slower. Oh, and it sounds wicked ramthecowy - CSR7.zip (27.6 KB)
I hope I meet all requirements.
@HighOctaneLove if youāre still in the mood to review, even three bullet points of concise advice would really be appreciated!
And of course, to anyone else who is willing to give feedback, please do
too many weight saving that hurt comfort, overly stiff suspension that hurt drivability, a bit too many negative camber that probably bit uncommon for a stock vehicle and little mix and match with parts and qaulity slider. i keep trying to make it road legal as possible even with thin rubber and obviously it fit the CSR 23 rule but the stats is probably equal to a top model/trim of an crappy cheap ecobox car except its more sporty and faster.
Uhh I thought limited production was still ok, just excluding titanium rods and race headers.
Shouldāve gone for AHS chassis, also one reverse flow muffler instead of the single straight through muffler (that sound, though). Though I mightāve been less able to keep up with the top four when doing so (also counting in @abg7 ), but I guess being one of the top NA engine powered entries is something
Tastes like litres of unleaded 98, this sure gives the SPITFIRE Direct Injection System some literal meaning. And it still uses the same bottom end parts!
( I also thought for going with an inline 3 just for novelty! It actually wouldnāt have performed much worse than the inline 4 version I submitted, and maybe quieter )
EDIT: Shared the Inline 3 alternative here!
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