Wronged1's former engines thread

What if I used a straight six instead of a V8 and DOHC 4V? Perhaps something like this would be the result



Compared to Corvette's '95 lineup, we have 1: LT1 level long stroke with cast internal and standard intake.

2: LT4 level short stroke with cast internals and standard intake.

3: LT5 level long stroke with forged internals and performance intake, available by '91 for '92 model year.

Pretty much the only real N/A 6 I know of which is comparable to mine in output is the TVR Speed Six.


I made the original '99 version since that’s the most relevant in terms of era, although I seem to remember Gran Turismo 4 having a '96 or '97 Speed 6 Cerbera, so I was kinda shocked Wiki said started in '99.

I made the last engine a straight six fearing a V wouldn’t be smooth enough at such a large size, however, decided to test last night anyway, I was more or less proven right, but, not to the extent I expected.


Similar story with other versions, seems to suggest perhaps it could be doable with decent quality boast, though at same time a quality boast to the I6 by extension would allow longer strokes and more efficiency.

Worst idea I’ve had yet? Thought I’d try a small, high revving V8 to compare to my turbo version of a 3.6L “existing” pushrod V6 shown elsewhere in these forums, it certainly didn’t turn out all that great at least.




All: Tubular mid headers, 2 way cat, no damper (with flat plane crank on V8s) and same cam setting.

1st: Standard intake DOHC V8.

2nd: Standard intake DOHC V6, turned out better in pretty much every way but efficiency due to stiffer valves.

3rd: Standard intake SOHC V8, to believe I wanted 2.0L SOHC originally…

4th: Performance intake DOHC V8, still less hp than turbo V6 with now less efficiency.

In part for comparison purposes to these, I next intend to try the Ferrari 208 and 308 engines.

BMW M31, the engine from a car I’ve found very fun to drive in racing games over the years:


Required no extra quality surprisingly, although does have 6 tech pool for early turbo unlock plus Wikipedia suggested it should be using only 7 psi (0.5 Bar) of boast while this recreation uses 10 psi (0.7 Bar) of boast, so, perhaps it should be redone with high quality to make power and torque that way instead of with boast, perhaps would have cured the bad efficiency also. Given I was able to get it running on unleaded, I did so, though probably ran on leaded given the times.

U.S. 308 engine, has catalytic converter (though real might not have based on automobile-catalog.com):


Was having trouble getting power to come late enough with Euro version, especially when also trying to get correct torque numbers, so settled for the U.S. version instead lol! Makes it more comparable anyway to the small V8s I shared before, especially when including the maybe unnecessary catalytic converters.

Wont be able to upload tomorrow, may not be back until Monday.

Maximum drifto?


+2 quality on most things, though internals needed +8 as well as lots of tech pool to unlock fuel system.
I personally kinda like to think this powers the Japanese version of the 2K2T from a couple of posts back.

The King of Africa has demanded a couple of his hearts be shared in my thread, how could I refuse?


After all, an Orangutan confirmed his royalty, so, I know I'm not being fooled, the time for that has passed.

Hey… Charger!


Wikipedia claims this to be the highest output six until the OG 911 Turbo, therefore surely remaining the highest output naturally aspirated six for a fair bit beyond that, though Wikipedia doesn’t elaborate on that.

Had I not aimed for the almost certainly gross factory ratings and used a more realistic compression ratio, a.k.a. did things more like the L78 recreation, I wouldn’t have needed max quality! Probably should have stopped quality wise once it was making peak power at the correct 5,600 RPM or something like that.

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With my last engine being from Chrysler corp, loyal readers of this thread, if there are any who even exist… probably expected a Viper V10 soon, and they’d be correct.


I went with, as sad as it is to say, the final Viper engine :' ( after it's slight 2015 update with an 5 extra hp. Originally, I planed on sharing a 13 quality version with L.ong Tubular H.eaders, though I decided to give M.id another go and was able to get correct outputs with power coming closer to as soon as it's meant to, therefore I shared that instead, though the LH version was better and so I decided to make another version where I retuned the +11 quality MH engine with LH by mainly lowering cam, richening fuel mixture and advancing timing to make the +11 quality LH shown to try and demonstrate that to you, with it probably being a harder sell if the LH engine had extra quality. LH version has a pretty big jump, around 10% in efficiency with the slight reliability drop plus emissions and throttle response increase more due to the timing and fuel richening increases needed to get the torque back up to 600 footpounds. Had torque not been a concern due to recreation purposes, the mixture could be lowered with the cam bumped up a bit for much more power and no loss in efficiency with LH, but LH has too much of a latening effect on the power peak.
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The Hemiest of all the Hemis!


Wikipedia does claim this engine was only meant to make 350 hp in SAE Net, so that’s what I went with, that’s roughly 82% of the gross rating and so I also went with 82% of the 490 lb-ft of torque as well.

Unlike what I usually do, I only did +7 quality on family, valves and fuel system with just the tech pool raised on internals to +9 so I can get lightweight forged conrods and they (mostly the pistons of course) only needed 75 damper to handle the 6,400 RPM redline I set which I think is the redline of these engines stock in Forza.

Again, stock 10.2 compression is way too high according to the game for what can be done on Super leaded, so avgas was again used, probably should’ve made a reduced compression version on Super, but oh well.

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Chrysler Turbo II as seen on on cars such as the Shelby Omni GLH-S:






Screenshot descriptions

1st: Output at 2,200 RPM (claimed start of flat torque which is meant to last until 4,800 RPM).

2nd: Default stats screen.

3rd: Output at 5,300 RPM (claimed power peak, calling into question claimed 175 lb-ft since that would suggest it should be making ~173 lb-ft, just 2 lb-ft lost 500 RPM after it’s 4,800 RPM 175 lb-ft torque peak).

4th: Boast lowered by 33% to show reliability if it had a torque limiter.

5th: Only 1 extra tech pool used from the minimum of a certain (as of posting) currently active challenge…

6th: Compression lowered to 7.5:1 (down from 8.5:1) and boast upped by 0.05 Bar to run on Regular 91.

In the Shelby Omni, this engine’s only meant to output 175 lb-ft, it was quickly obvious that wasn’t happening, even getting just 200 lb-ft looked like it’d be a big ask, so instead I aimed for 200 lb-ft at 2,200 RPM since that’s when the flat torque of the engine (Shelby 175 lb-ft version) is meant to start. (Didn’t prove too difficult.) I didn’t check how the 200 lb-ft version’s torque is meant to be delivered. though if it’s meant to be flat as well, I’d assume it’s meant to have a torque limiter of some kind like I guessed may be true of the Barra Turbos brought up in post 17.

Only quality used was +3 on pistons and +1 on fuel system and Turbo, running on Super since game doesn’t think 12 psi of boast with 8.5:1 compression is all that doable on regular. It uses cast internal parts as Wiki claims Shelby (pre-production) version doesn’t use forged crank or conrods unlike factory Chrysler version, though with no mention of hypereutectic or forged pistons, I felt I may as well try sticking with cast.

For a couple of extra screenshots of low boast for reliability versions,

view here: CSR154 - Midsize Mania [ENTRIES OPEN] - #147 by Ray_V0lut10n

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1988-90 Jeep 4.0 Liter (revised RENIX MPI)


A hint at a possible desire to do AMC recreations for the next batch? No extra quality was used.

Chevrolet Vega:


In their hey day, General Motors was quite innovative, fuel injection in the 50’s not long after Mercedes-Benz (if I’m not mistaken) pioneered it in road cars with the 300 SL Gullwing, Turbos in the early 60’s on the Chevrolet Corvair and Oldsmobile Jetfire, then as the 70’s dawned, they tried new ideas again.

The Vega had an AlSi block, a material the game doesn’t normally allow until 1996 and therefore even with +15 tech pool only allows you go go back as far as 1981 tech year, so with the extra time needed to account for engineering time suggests Chevy was 3 decades early, but to save a bit of cash, they used an iron head.

I thought it might give funny results giving it a try, given I was fairly sure such mixing would harm reliability, though what effect on reliability it had ended up being negated by the +5 family, valve and fuel system quality I deemed necessary to hit the 121 lb-ft torque output, so I gave the Cosworth version a try as well.

Despite about half an inch less of stroke, the Cosworth version easily wanted to make 120 in both hp and lb-ft thanks to the quadfecta of improvements of Aluminum heads, with double the cams and valves as well as electronic port fuel injection, therefore that gave me an excuse to nuke family and fuel system quality to -10! Reliability would have been even lower if I removed unused tech pool, perhaps that’s a missed opportunity.

Spoiler alert, people are bound to enjoy the engine shared here next time FAR more than todays!

It’s a V12, DM any guesses you have as to what it is and I’ll consider a reward of some kind if correct.

If you post the correct answer in a public reply and someone else copy and pastes into a DM, DM wins FYI!

Yesterday’s Cosworth Vega engine inspired me to try some 16 valve Inline 3 designs, so here they are:





Screenshot descriptions

All: Mid standard intake and tubular headers, single barrel carb, 333033 tech pool, alloy block and head.

1st: 2.2L SOHC standard quality, most square.

2nd: 2.2L SOHC like 1st but with +3 quality everything.

3rd: 2.1L SOHC standard quality, most over-square, might have hypereutectic pistons?

4th 2.0L DOHC standard quality, hypereutectic pistons (pretty sure this time).

5th 2.0L DOHC like 4th but with +3 quality everything.

DOHC seems more OP than it was in previous versions of the game, I seem to remember SOHC 4 valve being competitive in efficiency verse DOHC 4 valve and so I tended to favour it believing it the better option due to lightness of not having the extra cam and material housing it for non-high performance applications, though that certainly doesn’t seem to hold now, the efficiency gains of DOHC are too strong now to deny.