Correct, production units.
I’ve been needing my automation fix for a while now as my computer access has been limited, so thinking up and hosting challenges is the next best thing.
So… after a little bit of debate, I decided to try out maffc’s most excellent new sedan/hatch/saloon/whatever the hell you want body. Then I thought what car could I possibly model it off?
Then I thought, “we should make a racing version of a 1984 Ford Telstar… said nobody ever,” so this is the work in progress.
[size=85]Conceived at the risk of death by Hannah throwing spanner at my head, as Hannah is a Holden girl. She was only placated by the fact that the Ford Telstar isn’t a real ford, it’s essentially a rebadged Mazda 626…[/size]
After the ZRP started to work on the Zephyr they have found out that the car was RWD… embarassed they put aside the prototype and start over on the Zest.
Behold, the product of “I’m getting sick of not squeezing out a million horses from each block.” Time for a return to form with way too many horses and a ridiculous power to weight ratio (hint: more than ever before for any GG submitted car on a tight budget).
If this happens to look suspiciously like a FK2 Civic and upcoming Type R, this is your fault.
As a challenge for myself (and because I happened to be bored of designing all-out race cars) I decided to build a benchmark of sorts and am running something which gets nowhere close to some of the restrictions for this challenge.
70+ average reliability (what do you mean you can’t daily your race car)
$12500 total costs
150 production units
225 wide tires!
a full interior with entertainment and safety
8.7L/100KM
road legal (or at least Europe probably won’t stop you from buying one)
I expect it to still be plenty quick, but if nothing else I’ll have the only entry which you can drive to, around, and back from the race track.
Truthfully, it looks good. But if it returns as much output as the upcoming Type R, it will also have approximately half as much power as my crappy banger Telstar (because I got bored of restricting myself, funnily enough)
The real Type R will probably have a much more driver-friendly torque curve, yes. And also only two doors.
It will also probably have a turbocharged K20. I was actually rather excited about putting a K24-esque engine into this body and running in the naturally aspirated class, but it turns out that it doesn’t fit despite being very undersquare (87 x 99mm).
Given that the R18 is also undersquare (81 x 87.3mm, but I destroked it down to R16 spec 77.4mm) and only just fits I think it’s safe to assume that there’s something funny going on with this body’s engine bay.
Besides, I rather enjoy making death traps ho ho ho.
(because I got bored of restricting myself, funnily enough)
