How about just giving the control over these values free for edit to the offline-using-racer?
And keep the original specs for the online races?
Obviously scawen doesn't want that to happen, or why are there so many mechanik versions available.
Or the other way around, why does it always take a version update to work with the latest patch?
You could say: "hey mate, it's because of them cheaters out there..."
And you'd probably have a point in that.
But i say it can be made, even if that system gets exploited, it wouldn't take long till someone screams "murder"... recognizing a cheater.
Resulting in a lifetime-ban for that particular cheater on all servers.
After all we call that programm a "simulator" and maybee i ask too much here since i haven't encountered any other sim that let's you easily edit the power-specs for anything moveable.
I'm not even thinking about realism here, it's the inner child in all of us that makes -at least me- using mechanik or tweaker once in a while.
regards