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Post by fourcamtbird on Apr 23, 2019 14:26:33 GMT
I have trouble committing to week night things. I'm generally on a lot but the time isn't necessarily a fixed thing depending on what else is going on. But if we wanted to do something on Sunday nights after the 2O4F series ends I'm in for a multiple sprint races per night sort of spec series or whatever the case may be.
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Post by flight602 on Apr 24, 2019 19:47:59 GMT
I'm always up for a spec series as long as it's not some giant truck or van
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Post by wildmancb on Apr 24, 2019 20:27:54 GMT
How you guys feel about using the KIA at Long Beach? I really haven't driven the car that much. I'd prefer a Altima or Camery but there's only race versions in the game. What day of week and time would everyone be comfortable with if anyone is game? Spec is good way to go but I was gonna play with little things in a build. But keep it as close as possible to a spec.
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Post by shlepprok on Apr 26, 2019 2:41:41 GMT
There's always IROC??? Also been playing with a possible Porsche spec series, just been super busy as of late, why I haven't been around...
And.... with the new experimental drag thing in FM7, I've been going over ideas for another drag racing event like we did at Sebring. Just trying to find how to set specs for the cars. Most likely it would be based on drag testing times, like a 10 sec car, with certain build criteria...
Just have to see what the schedule is like, but I'll try and get on it...
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Post by strife67 on Apr 26, 2019 16:14:11 GMT
Seams like plenty of good ideas going around, and I'm not sure of I should add to the table or not. The summary of what I could say is that I am still working on the IMSA inspired setup with the FE cars and adding non-FE cars which is definitly taking longer than I had hoped. On the other hand I have been wanting to revisit my old Viper Cup idea that I did with another group in FM4. Basically an ACR with minor upgrades. Spec builds and tuning is allowed. Any interest?
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Post by wrenchmonkey1 on Apr 27, 2019 15:06:50 GMT
Spec seems to be the rage around here right now, not to throw more on the pile but I have a BRZ built and tuned to an off shoot spec 86 series not long ago. I made it using as close as I could to the real world counter part while also using as much of the same tuning as I could.
With all these spec ideas I'm wondering if a small series that rotates who's car/tune is used every couple weeks could become something, be a good way to get more people involved and get a smaller & quicker rotation of cars going
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Post by strife67 on Apr 27, 2019 15:51:11 GMT
Preset Tunes and rotating cars/tracks would be interesting for sure and may take out some of the practice/tuning we stess over every week. I like it.
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Post by wrenchmonkey1 on Apr 27, 2019 16:43:47 GMT
I'm thinking a nice simple ongoing series, standard set of rules/points/contingency decals for all cars (except maybe model specific, i.e. BRZ could have STI, Viper could get Mopar, etc. and class lettering).
Probably not a Sunday series but maybe a casual weekday thing. Get the people interested in tuning to put together a car list in advance so people can throw some simple paints on for looks and just go from there
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Post by sarverious1 on May 3, 2019 13:21:07 GMT
Let me know what you guys come up with. I am working on the 2.5L cars now, and will have them ready before Michelin Pilot Challenge ends. I would like to have a big crowd for this, so can fit it in before or after your touring cars. Yan let me know if you need help tuning for the touring cars. I have pretty much nothing else to test, besides helping Wrench start a project he was thinking in some older cars. I'd be more than glad to help
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Post by fourcamtbird on May 7, 2019 17:13:52 GMT
I started playing around with the FE cars as a TA2 type of series idea. Looked at what the build limits were of possible cars for weight, power, tire width and down force. It looked like the FE cars followed the downforce of their standard counter parts so I plan to do some testing and see if the aero advantage of the Mustang can possibly be offset by additional tire width on the Camaro and Challenger. There is no FE Challenger but you can wide body the Hellcat, though with no adjustable front downforce. Again, looking to see if more tire width could possibly balance it. There is room to make the Camaro have +10 wider tires than the Mustang and the Challenger up another 10. If the hellcat would balance I'd be looking at 650ish HP in the cars. Or there's the option of using the Fast and Furious Demon which has adjustable front Downforce but would put the cars at 840 HP.
I toyed with the idea of the M4, C63 and ATS as well but they all come out lighter weight and a couple of them have narrower tires. I think the difference may kepe them from balancing out well with the pony cars but they would balance to each other fine I think. I've considered balancing those three cars as a group with the tires at the lowest car's max width 295 front, 3200ish lbs and 600ish HP (or 770ish HP is the other cars have to be at 840) and the American big 3 as a group with tires as required to balance but a minimum of 305 front for the Mustang, 3500ish lbs and 650ish HP and adjusting the parameters of one so each group were generally as close as possible. At one point TA had a TA3/TA3i/TA4 that did something similar for production based cars where there was a class within a class.
The bottom line was that there looked like there was potential based on how cars build to get them to balance together. I just need to drive them and see how it works out in practice. I'd prefer to stay at the lower HP level because i think the racing would be better but won't do it if the Challenger doesn't work and if the Hellcat with no adjustable front downforce won't balance I'd go with the higher HP. the higher HP seems easier to balance in general just because of the Challenger's downforce. The cars have lots of tire so I think high HP would still be drivable.
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Post by wildmancb on May 8, 2019 0:06:30 GMT
If you could get the pony cars to balance out that be a good series. Pony car showdown or something like that.
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Post by EricIsDaywalker on Jun 28, 2019 17:03:43 GMT
Hey guys. This site looks promising....
Due to work schedule and life stuff, been off the forum and Xbone for a while.
Thought I'd check in and see how things were shaping up at the new forum.
Cheers,
Robluvcars1 aka EricIsdaywalker
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