Originally posted by UB57
With How Much HP???
IMO: To have a decent Race w/JGTC Cars you have to be about 100 HP LOWER than they are. If you have the same HP in a similar chassis you'll "Hammer 'em" for sure. I'm gonna try the Razo Sylvia w/385-425 HP soon as these guys are running 485-525 HP. phattboy is fine tuning a Clio, maybe we can get LoudMusic to give the Spoon S2000 a try. That way we'll have all the 299HP (Stock) Racers covered.👍...UB57
phattboy done! and phattboy phatter
After all the testing and pre-running, I settled on The Clio with about a Stage 1.5 turbo (Tuned special to 425 HP if anyone wants it let me know... Not a hard thing to do though if you have MK's and a sharkport.)
Normally the Clio starts at 308. Not enough for me to win on T2's.
Add the Stage 1 turbo to up the stock to 354 HP. Still not enough for me to win on the T2's.
Add the Stage 2 turbo to up the HP to 455 and it was see you later guys and well on my way to lapping 2 to 3 times on the leaderboard by my calculations.
Drop down to Stage 1 turbo and play with the tires. Couldn't quite keep up on T3's... Might be a driver problem.
Stage 1.75 turbo? 435 HP. Slowly pulling away and had the race easily in hand by lap 20 running T2's again.
1 1/4 pounder at 400 HP, still light in the loafers. Still might be a driver problem.
Pretty close though if I ran T-3. Too many pits I fear.
Did the Three Little Bears Syndrome (To Hot, To Cold, Ahhhh... Just right
) Just right appeared to be what I call the 1 1/2 lb Turbo
425 HP Which made a Power to Weight ratio of 2.705 and a Torque to Weight ration of .263 for those who are interested.
The Race you say? After 2 hours, 48 minutes and 14.191 seconds, I crossed the finish line 7.611 Seconds ahead of the Denso Sard Supra!
My fastest lap was 1'38.46 on lap 32, my last lap was a dismal 1'41.951 and most of them in between were 1'39.XXX to 140.XXX except for the pit stop laps. The best lap I made coming out of the pits was a 1'45.XXX and the worst was a 1'47.XXX. I pitted on a 20 lap schedule. I lapped the Skyline brothers (all three there) 2 times each and was twenty seconds back of lapping the third place Tom's Supra. Want more info?
I probably have it somewhere on this notepad
Some side notes are:
My oil light blinked on somewhere in the late 60's, I ended up with 405 HP (PWR 2.839, TWR .276), Collected Monopoly money of 400k and put a GT-One Roady in the house.
The last ten laps of the race were misery. The last lap of the race, I only ran about a second slower than the previous lap but miraculously the Denso found a run of 4 seconds on me. That happened a lot in the race. The Denso started out pitting on a 14 lap schedule, went to 15 laps, then to 16. Weird
Never seen that. When he was supposed to pit in the 70's, he never really pitted on the map, just gave me my 20 seconds and kept on going.
My thumb hurts
Edit: Oh yeah... I was so proud of my bad self I saved the replay just for braggin' on.
phattboy
Another edit: BTW... I only messed with the HP to get the race as tight as I could. Everything else was factory.
phattboy...
driver of the only true GTC mini-van Clio the
Killer of Giants