Vehicle mod: FORMULA 60
Details page: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/18CF01

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

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slow but fun open wheeler

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Mod is far from being finished. Still needs a lot of texture work and driving re-touches.

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Mod looks great, excited to see it finished! Once you've got the textures sorted out this will be super fun to race.

Nice! It needs the engine to match the model though!

It's a formula Vee, should have the engine and gearbox from a beetle. 1300cc air cooled flat 4.

They make around 85hp in race trim.

https://www.750mc.co.uk/formulae/formula-vee.htm

https://www.750mc.co.uk/ugc-1/1/1/0/2021_formula_vee_-_final_regs.pdf

The regulation docs above will have the allowed gearboxes and ratios too if useful

Wheel and tyre sizes are within that too.

Quote from Cimanu :

Nice! It needs the engine to match the model though!

It's a formula Vee, should have the engine and gearbox from a beetle. 1300cc air cooled flat 4.

They make around 85hp in race trim.

https://www.750mc.co.uk/formulae/formula-vee.htm

https://www.750mc.co.uk/ugc-1/1/1/0/2021_formula_vee_-_final_regs.pdf

The regulation docs above will have the allowed gearboxes and ratios too if useful

Wheel and tyre sizes are within that too.

It is weird that the mod is showing 3 cil since i exported it with 4..

I followed an old document for engine specs ( http://www.formulaveeusa.org/books_files/Getting_Started_In_Formula_Vee.pdf ) and for tyre sizes i used standar car size. But definitely gonna see that. ty for the feedback

Engine no textures :/

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Engine no textures :/

Not yet! Gonna work on that this week

Magnificent handling! I like this thing

Two sentences from the site credited that caught my eye:

"I make no claims of ownership on any of the work, it is merely what I have converted and/or changed to my liking, and then I share it on the blog because why not?"

"Model probably started in GSE judging by the quality.
I spruced it up a bit, chopped off the towers, and added pushrods, etc."

I hate to say this, but these things make me wonder the legality of this mod. GSE in this context i think means "Game Stock Car Extreme", a game by Reiza Studios.

I have the same worries as niko, hopefully it's all legit though because I love a formula vee

It's been a while since the last update and that's because i want to do a big last update and claim it finished. Changes made so far for the next version are:

.- Engine changed from 2t to 4t. Since the beetle engine is not two stroke.
.- Smoothen tris, now is not (that) low poly. Thanks to latvian to showing me that lol
.- SKINS!!!! I've made a Pro-Kit type template with wireframe and blackmask for skin making. Probably gonna add some default skins to the mod.
.- Fixed the collision box. Now i added the wheels to the collision.

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Now i need to figure out a nice engine sound since the engine is diferent and sounds more beefier, finish some skins and the mod will be no longer a WIP.

Some photos of the progress:

Been driving it a bit this morning A lot of fun, but hard to keep it on the asphalt… some lift off oversteer and it has a tendency to spin as soon as you look at a corner… could be setup or driver error though hehe… The (front) suspension could use a bit of ‘beefing up’, it looks like the wheels are attached with wire thin rods…

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Been driving it a bit this morning A lot of fun, but hard to keep it on the asphalt… some lift off oversteer and it has a tendency to spin as soon as you look at a corner… could be setup or driver error though hehe… The (front) suspension could use a bit of ‘beefing up’, it looks like the wheels are attached with wire thin rods…

That overteer is fixed once you heat up the tires. But i know that is caused by the rear suspension setup, i have to figure out how to fix it because i dont know much about suspensions yet.

Ty for the feedback

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Been driving it a bit this morning A lot of fun, but hard to keep it on the asphalt… some lift off oversteer and it has a tendency to spin as soon as you look at a corner… could be setup or driver error though hehe… The (front) suspension could use a bit of ‘beefing up’, it looks like the wheels are attached with wire thin rods…

It's pretty easy to drive not sure what u doing

Lovely to drive.

It is great fun, just as said the rear suspension feels off and the car is virtually indestructible, i have to try really hard to even make a dent in the suspension. I wonder if that could be changed somehow? It is formula car after all and these usually are fragile.

Awesome car to drive, thanks for this!

Excellent car very interesting to race.
It would.be nice if the collision box was made tighter though. You cannot put something between wheels and it would rock for closed racing!

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Excellent car very interesting to race.
It would.be nice if the collision box was made tighter though. You cannot put something between wheels and it would rock for closed racing!

I tried to do that making the wheels as squares on the collision box but it feels weird. Also it exceeds the tris limit

Oh I see too bad... Looks like Lfs is limiting then...

Yeah, it looks like you spent a lot of tris on the engine model, oh that is unfortunate

I think it is worth simplifying it, you did a great job with the mod in general and I'm sure it took a lot of time to create it in such details, but compromises must be made.

This mod is fun to drive.Also called formula vee

It will be next Monday on Cesav south city.

Registration:
https://www.cesav.es/index.php?pid=12

- Looks like the side LOD2/LOD3 skin mappings are not set correctly;
If possible please adjust them.

Quote from Evolution_R :

- Looks like the side LOD2/LOD3 skin mappings are not set correctly...

the entire car is not done correctly. i need to remake the whole thing with physics, new model, etc but i got little time left

Quote from Cimanu :

Nice! It needs the engine to match the model though...

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