[WW] WolfexWorks Industries

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

Australia – it really does live up to its name as ‘the lucky country’ to those within her borders. The world’s largest island is the home and birthplace of AFL, sweaty beer-stained burly men and really bad soap operas. However, nobody in Oz, despite being a giant quarry, has the balls to stand up in their seat, flip their office table, storm into the manager’s office and say “I’m gonna go build cars and shit!"

In the 80’s, you would have been right. Of course, the V8 Supercars were well and truly in their prime, but they were much too expensive to maintain and consumed more fuel than an oil tanker on fire. However, when September '86 arrived, an aspiring 20 year-old mechanic decided to quit his job, mortgage the house and start working full-time on his own from-scratch creations - and thus the dream began.

Realise your childhood dream of screaming down the M1 at a billion 'kays an hour in a 100% Oz grown gasoline-fueled fireball and browse our collection which may or may not suddenly and violently self-destruct if you drive any faster than 30.

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AN: New cars will take a long time for me to complete. I want to make sure they are all up to snuff before
I release them to the public, so to speak.

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[Darkshine5]

DSD would like to extend an Olive branch out to another Australian manufacturer and opens its doors to you sir please feel free to use parts that you may need or you can contact Myself on my direct number

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

##WolfexWorks, in association with DSD, present the "Cerberus line!##

It’s 1990. The USA is hit by a massive recession and Kuwait is invaded by Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army and a 7.7 earthquake decimates the Philippines. For one man, though, this would turn out to be a very interesting year. As mentioned previously, this plucky young lad mortgaged his house and quit his job to become a full-time car builder, under the name of “WolfexWorks”.

The first thing he looked for, unsurprisingly, was a big fat V8 engine. Almost immediately, he managed to find a Chevy Big Block (somehow) in a junkyard. When he strapped that to his then-completed body, by the time the engine got to around 3200RPM, the entire car disintegrated. Thankfully, he only suffered from a mild case of lamenting his crushed dreams.

Despite having loads of funds at his disposal (thanks to the aforementioned mortgage of his house and generous donations from investors), he realised that he had absolutely zero experience building a car from scratch, and was struggling to find anyone who would be happy to lend an engine powerful enough to get the car up to a reasonable speed, yet reliable enough to not immediately shred your car when you turn the ignition key.

However, after dozens of unreturned phone calls to various producers, one was successful. The CEO of DSD, alias ‘Darkshine’, said that he was happy to lend him anything that he may require. Not wanting to let his own boss-in-law down, he laid down the blueprints for his new creation, ordered a bunch of parts to be delivered ASAP and started work. And he didn’t disappoint.

He made a statement on his website about the internals of this mysterious new car.

“The finished product, christened “Cerberus”, was absolutely hideous, and shouts that it should be killed with fire. However, before you ready your pitchforks and begin a large-scale riot outside my house, hear me out. Instead of using the 427ci (7.0L) ‘Big Block’ that tore my last car to shreds, I decided to move away from Chevrolet entirely, and make my own big engine. A 488ci (8.0L) V8, to be exact. This lazy behemoth of a power source produces 404 of your finest kilowatts at around 5000RPM, and catapults the Cerberus from 0-62mph (0-100km/h) in 5 seconds dead, and onto a projected top speed of 200mph (320km/h). And, at a hypothetical price of just $40,000 (in 1990, just under $75,000 nowadays), it’s a real bargain.”

That ain’t bad for one guy in a shed, amirite?

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Models available -

Cerberus 400S

Price - ~$28,000 (1990)
Power - 293kW
Weight - ~1450kg
0-60 - 5.9 seconds
Top Speed - 174mph (280km/h)

Cerberus 460SR

Price - ~$32,000 (1990)
Power - 350kW
Weight - ~1520kg
0-60 - 5.5 seconds
Top Speed - 186mph (300km/h)

Cerberus 512R

Price - ~$40,000 (1990)
Power - 404kW
Weight - ~1580kg
0-60 - 5 seconds
Top Speed - 200mph (320km/h)

Colours available (shown in matte for added visual intensity)

Uluru Red

Real Man Pink

Bondi Blue

Safety Vest Yellow

Pom White

Engines available -

8.0L ‘Category VI’ FBV8 (Model Number - (NA90H404)
In Production - YES

6.2L ‘Tempest’ UBV8 (Model Number - (NA90H350)
In Production - COMING SOON

5.5L ‘Storm’ UBV8 (Model Number - (NA90H293)
In Production - COMING SOON

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Please feel free to leave some constructive criticism below. Any and all ideas/pointers will be greatly appreciated.

OfficialWolfexWorks

[Darkshine5]

You have nailed the safety vest yellow

search for koolkei rotating gif to learn how to make your cars spin

c’mon then lets see this v8 of yours

edit: my only recommendation is to play with lower camshaft profiles with a slightly lower compression ratio to allow high timing which should keep power up but will bring your peak torque down to about 2500-3500 RPM and youu may find that 4 v head will give better/as good results as the 5 valve but cheaper and lighter and has the option of VVL

[ArtyomRanger]

For some reason it reminds me of the maxda rx8

[squidhead]

You shuld post ypur cars pics from multiple angles

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

Noted.

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

WolfexWorks Industries, as past experience shows, is most definitely not the first place that comes to mind when someone mentions the word(s) ‘quality’, ‘finesse’ or even ‘remotely viable’. To change this, the team at WW Headquarters suggested the idea that the manufacturers involved in creating the Cerberus be sacked and replaced with people who actually knew what they were doing. This plucky R&D researcher leading this charge was later fired, and the CEO suddenly (without any outside influence) came up with the splendid idea of sacking those responsible in creating the Cerberus and replacing them with people who actually knew what they were doing.

This gave a bit of breathing room to work with, so they set to work creating a new hyper-vehicle, under the codename “Hypernova”. However, due to the (relatively) excessive amounts of accidents relating to the creation of such, this idea was shelved for a good decade or so until the company sprung back into life thanks to an unnamed third-party’s contributions to it.

So, in late 2016, the finished product was ready to be revealed. Here it is.

It’s called the “Equinox FSO”, and judging by its fancy name, this means that it must surely have some massive shoes to fill. Whether it does so successfully is not for anyone at WolfexWorks to decide. It’s all up to you.

Prices start at a very reasonable $100,000 AUD.

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[strop]

You’re a secretive lady… the foremost question on my mind is: how does it drive?

Show us the stats!!!

[KairaWolf]

The year is 2003 ; bushfires galore. WolfexWorks Industries by that point were inactive for more than a decade. Finally though, they managed to scrape together a car… and what a car it is. It’s called the Penumbra - one of three parts of a shadow. And, considering that the car is only available in matte black, the name sticks.

The design of the car, as compared to the Cerberus road car, is completely radical and is outright jaw-dropping. Nobody really knows what triggered this switch of philosophy, but lead designer Yvonne Goddard made a statement saying that the CEO of WolfexWorks yelled at her, ranting on about “designs being too boring”, and that he wanted something that “wouldn’t give a hernia” every time you caught a glimpse of the car. To make sure of this, he brought all the designers into a small room, locked them in and didn’t let them out until at least one of them made an interesting design.

This 3.0L V6, christened D.U.L.C.E.T, truly is a wonderful creation. Screaming to 8000RPM, it produces a sprightly 276bhp @ 7600RPM and 299Nm at 4800RPM. A nice power curve ensures you can always put your power onto the road, especially so with 265s out back and 245s up front. Amazingly, despite the engine putting out quite a lot of horsepower and being quite heavy, the whole car weighs 1260kg - around the same as a Honda NSX. And, while the latter may have more power, the Penumbra does almost 30mpg.

Don’t ask us how, we don’t know either!

In the end, the finished product was a sight to behold. Hopefully, you’ll think so, too.

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[OfficialWolfexWorks]

Thank you so much for posting that for me, Kaira. Computer meltdowns are best taken in shifts.

[squidhead]

I suspected something was quite off with the engine setup when I saw 270hp out of 3 liters, and with fuel octane being at 88.3, yeah, you can squeeze better economy and power out of the thing just by tweaking the CR and ignition. The design of the car however is very cool.

[abg7]

Also, if it is possible, consider using a leaner air/fuel ratio, as lean as possible without causing knock.

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

The fuel mixture was at 15.0 to 1, but okay.

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

The Penumbra as it seems was the proverbial light at the end of the miserable tunnel for WolfexWorks, and hopefully would clear the path as to where the company could go to build upon. However, rather than continue to innovate, they decided to instead fix the problems that plagued the Penumbra, going by the philosophy of “quality, not quantity”.

Critics felt that the 3.0L “D.U.L.C.E.T” V6 was significantly held back, noting the “piss-weak” fuel mixture and the distinctive lack of turbochargers. To solve this, the fuel octane was cranked up as high as it would go and a pair of hand-made turbos were slotted in. The ECU was also tuned with emphasis on maximum power throughout the range, bumping up the power from 276bhp to 420bhp. The maximum RPM, thanks to further refining of internal components, has also increased from 8000RPM to 9000RPM.

This dramatic change also added quite a bit of weight, so the entire car was quite literally thrown away and replaced with a full carbon-fiber constructed body and chassis. The significant reduction in weight, combined with an extra 150-or-so horses means that the new Penumbra (hereby christened the Syzygy model) can accelerate to 60mph more than half a second quicker (3.2 seconds compared to 3.8), and the top speed has been noted to brushing against 200mph (granted with a slight tailwind). Speaking of winds, the addition of a giant rear spoiler isn’t for cosmetic purposes ; in fact, if one were to take it off, aerodynamic engineer Andres Velo reckons the entire car could flip if the car were ever to reach 205mph.

The “Airfield Track” times have also plummeted. Gone were the days of 1:20-ish times ; this model can blitz just about anything in its path with a notable 1:15.6! And don’t think that you need to have the reaction times of a fighter-pilot to scream around the track at this speed - thanks to super-wide, super-sticky and super-road-legal tyres, it is theorised that such trivial things as “appropriate entry speeds” are now meaningless.

Granted, the price has skyrocketed from $60,000 to $100,000. However, WolfexWorks are certain that the changes to the car have not affected the feel of the car in any way, and that the price jump is most certainly worth it.

[abg7]

The Penumbra’s styling is… unusual, to say the least, and its exterior color is more of a dark gray than black, but it clearly has potential. However, it apparently has no taillights.

As for the Equinox FSO, 341 horsepower from a 6.0L V12 is clearly not enough for a supercar or even a hypercar, especially since the engine has only two valves per cylinder. It still looks the part, though.

[OfficialWolfexWorks]

I mean, for somebody working in a shed with some mates who flunked engineering class, 341 ain’t bad.