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Engine Swaps in Gran Turismo 7? New Screenshots Raise New Questions
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This was 'possible' back in the GT2 era, if you knew the right people 😏
Bob Hall (the guy that came up with the idea for the MX-5, motoring journalist living in Sydney at the time) used to join us for PS2 LAN gaming with GT2. He'd been to polyphony digital and they'd given him some dev tools that let you modify anything you wanted about any car. I ended up taking home a memory card with a stack of interesting cars on it, including a gold NA MX-5 with the 787B quad rotor in it. Traction was an issue!
The developers of the game also had all their own cars modelled in game, top down MX-5 s with bucket seats and roll bars for example
Bob Hall (the guy that came up with the idea for the MX-5, motoring journalist living in Sydney at the time) used to join us for PS2 LAN gaming with GT2. He'd been to polyphony digital and they'd given him some dev tools that let you modify anything you wanted about any car. I ended up taking home a memory card with a stack of interesting cars on it, including a gold NA MX-5 with the 787B quad rotor in it. Traction was an issue!
The developers of the game also had all their own cars modelled in game, top down MX-5 s with bucket seats and roll bars for example
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Hybriding was a thing for anyone with a game shark (and a long list of codes) since the first game.
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Could you access the developers cars too with that?
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Couldn't say. I recall Kaz's Porsche being in one of the games, but I never found it. I only did it with the first GT game though... fun times! I'd found a guide on the late 90's internet that explained the process, but none of the codes that had to be used seemed to work on my version of the game, so I had to go through one by one and figure out which code applied to which car... I still have the lists...
Actually can't remember how it worked... but it was back in 1999!
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Willys Jeep with a Hellcat engine please.
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Hellwilly.
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My idea is to swap the Abarth 500' 09 engine (133 HP) into the 1965 Abarth 695 (normally 38HP).
With the extra horsepower from the 1.4 liter engine as a starting platform before engine tuning, I'm pretty sure you could get the horsepower up to 300hp with some of the new tuning parts in GT7.
The power-to-weight ratio would be insane. Even if they do limit the engines you can add to such a small engine bay, the swap from the A112 Abarth would still surely get you over the 200HP mark.
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One thing I will add in here, just to temper expectations.
It's likely not all OEMs will have OK'd engine swaps, and some of those that will may not have agreed to cross-brand engine swaps.
Forza has long taught us this is likely to be the case, and they have been negotiating this one with OEMs for a long, long time.
It's likely not all OEMs will have OK'd engine swaps, and some of those that will may not have agreed to cross-brand engine swaps.
Forza has long taught us this is likely to be the case, and they have been negotiating this one with OEMs for a long, long time.
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For sure. I don’t expect to see Type-R motors in ‘65 Minis.
I figure Toyota/Lexus would be keen. VW Porsche+Audi(maybe not Audi), Fiat/Abarth and possibly AMG/Mercedes-Benz.
Even though Mazda and Toyota have some joint projects, I doubt we’d see engines swapped between those two brands. BUT… could happen.
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I tried that in GT Sport and the car flips backwards when touching the accelerator, so I can't see this being an option 😆
You could only get something drivable by massively increasing the weight, here's an old video of a fat Fiat Bugatti hybrid which did the same before getting heavy
I'll have to do a Tomahawk 500 later with just a straight engine and gearbox swap.
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