I have some pics of my shop's car. I would love to have one made to replicate it! here are some pics, I can get some better ones, but I have these for now.
i wish it was mine! it belongs to the owner where I take my WRX. its his full race car. Its 461whp 441wheel torque. gone for a ride ITS FAST. he did the Sport compact ultimate street car challenge and came in third.
I was once involved in tuning a 22B Impreza for the Pikes Peak challenge - but various delays (with suppliers) meant the car arrived on the day of 'qualifying'. Having never seen the car before, the owner got 3rd (I guess it's done in heats - I didn't follow his progress tbh).
It was quite a powerful car - probably about 450hp (whats with this whp that people are using now?).
It was extremely dull to drive. And by extremely dull, I mean incredibly dull. It required no talent (on tarmac) to go fast. It's brakes were boring. It's handling was boring. It's acceleration (0-60 in something like 3.6 seconds cos of the funny gearing) was boring. It had no soul. No character. All it did was confirm to me that I will never willing own a 4WD car for any purpose other than towing a caravan when I'm 70.
I have a 380whp, aka Wheel horse power, cause thats the power at the wheels not the fly wheel. I love my 4wd/awd car. I have owned front wheel drive and will NEVER race fwd again. I hated it. torque steer sucks. I love to drive my friends nissan s13. just cause drifting is fun. but I still feel that nothing beats awd.
back to the topic, I think it would be best on the FXO
OT - Tristan you have a single seater, which is really a boring unchallenging car to drive, the only real skill in driving it is having the balls to push it where there are real dangers round every corner, my point being whilst you'd rather a car that's not fast but handles well like your MX5 for road use.
I don't understand why people want a 4WD road car so badly but in a racing car it makes sense if your building a car to a formula ie. a full race GT car with a minimum weight limit, if you could have an 1100 kg RWD car would you actually choose it over a identical 4WD car, in LFS the engines and weights in the GTRs are not the same so they can't really be compared.
Then in a Pikes Peak car a 4WD car is the only intelegent way of putting the power down, how on earth else would you put over 1000 bhp down on dirt, it's just common sense like you'd never build a front wheel drive single seater you'd never build a RWD pikes peak special.
I can't argue whether the F3 is boring or unchallenging yet as I haven't driven it properly. You might be right, or you might be talking twaddle - time will tell (yippee).
And yes, you are right, I would take handling and finesse over power anyday, especially in todays climate of speed cameras and poor road surfaces.
I'd quite like to, ahem, play, ahem with our Stratos on a proper dirt course (maybe not Pikes peak just yet ) - rallying isn't as spectatular with 4WD as it was with RWD, although it's certainly faster (and thus you beat people like me in RWD).
Torque steer is a seriously misunderstood term and phenomenom.
whp is a new term, and I shall hate it forever. It's a new term invented (probably) by rolling road 'specialists' who don't know what they are doing but want to sound clever. I've never ever had reason to need a term for whp. You just say hp. Where it's measured makes little difference 99% of the time, as it's close enough. On the rare occasions it's nec.... No, I give in. I'll never win trying to explain this to the 'tuners' of today.
My guess is you'll find the F3 car fairly easy to drive once you've got it working, that is to say after you've got the tires up to temperature and are driving it fast enough to get the full downforce. Obviously that doesn't mean it'll be boring by any stretch of the imagination
As for rally cars there have been plenty of exciting RWD cars, the Stratos and Lancia 037 as well as the more everyday but still great fun cars like Escorts and 911s. Though I don't think there's any denial that 4WD cars are faster, and that's never going to change and in the end of the day motor racing is about going as fast as you can, if it produces a gorgeous car in the process that's just an added bonus. 4WD cars can also be very fast in hillclimbing, Nick Mann can keep up with all but the fastest of the big single seaters in his Mallock (front engined, 4WD BDA engined with a constant boost turbo)
i'll give it a go. will take maybe 2 weeks as i'm busy these days. can you post any more close-ups maybe? or related websites? downloading or cutting logos saves much time.
) - rallying isn't as spectatular with 4WD as it was with RWD, although it's certainly faster (and thus you beat people like me in RWD).