Melange XGT-88

[zaqrack]

or you can go up to 1000EUR with good neighbours

[CTG]

or you can go up to 1000EUR with good neighbours

It's Hungary. You can't. Or at least not in this district.

[dreadnaut]

Oh, I thought you were talking about Hell   Not interested in Hungary, sorry.

[Chulk]

Oh, I thought you were talking about Hell   Not interested in Hungary, sorry.

Sending someone to hell has now lost all of it sense, knowing there's a real place called 'Hell' (and probably better to live in than most Argentinian places)

[CTG]

This is a Melange topic!

[dreadnaut]

Sorry, back on topic.

[Friker]

back to the off-topic line: "2009-05-03 Friker   you will end in 9th Circle of Hell CTG!!! even Duplode was so kind and leave me there for some time :-/" even back than words "Hell" and "CTG" were strongly connected in my head - you know - first impression..

[CTG]

back to the off-topic line: "2009-05-03 Friker   you will end in 9th Circle of Hell CTG!!! even Duplode was so kind and leave me there for some time :-/" even than words "Hell" and "CTG" were strongly connected in my head - you know - first impression..

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (satanic laugh)

[alanrotoi]

Do it has new dashboard and chassis?

[alanrotoi]

Did you know "Melange" ("mixture" in French) name is the way to explain its origin from the mix of some cars and a tribute to the Speedracer's robot opponent?
"Melange still races!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51C9yAGVB-w

[CTG]

Have you ever noticed that Jaguar XJR, Porsche 962 and Melange XGT-88 have the same torque curve? Except a little difference: the Melange graph is 5 units longer.

So what's the real difference? As you can see, Alan made some really minor modifications.

RPM	P962	XJR9	XGT-88
idle	52	52	52
128	17	17	17
256	17	17	17
384	17	17	17
512	17	17	17
640	17	17	17
768	17	17	17
896	17	17	17
1024	17	17	17
1152	17	17	17
1280	19	19	19
1408	1a	1a	1a
1536	1b	1b	1b
1664	1c	1c	1c
1792	1d	1d	1d
1920	1e	1e	1e
2048	1f	1f	1f
2176	1f	1f	1f
2304	1f	1f	1f
2432	1e	1e	1e
2560	1e	1e	1e
2688	1f	1f	1f
2816	1f	1f	1f
2944	1f	1f	1f
3072	1f	1f	1f
3200	20	20	20
3328	20	20	20
3456	20	20	20
3584	21	21	21
3712	21	21	21
3840	22	22	22
3968	22	22	22
4096	23	23	23
4224	23	23	23
4352	23	23	23
4480	24	24	24
4608	24	24	24
4736	26	26	26
4864	26	26	26
4992	26	26	26
5120	27	27	27
5248	28	28	28
5376	28	28	28
5504	28	28	28
5632	28	28	28
5760	29	29	29
5888	29	29	29
6016	29	29	29
6144	29	29	29
6272	29	29	29
6400	2b	2b	2b
6528	2b	2b	2b
6656	2b	2b	2b
6784	2d	2d	2d
6912	2d	2d	2d
7040	2d	2d	2d
7168	2d	2d	2d
7296	2d	2d	2d
7424	2d	2d	2d
7552	2d	2d	2d
7680	2d	2d	2d
7808	2d	2d	2d
7936	2d	2d	2d
8064	2d	2d	2d
8192	2d	2d	2d
8320	2d	2d	2d
8448	2d	2d	2d
8576	2d	2d	2d
8704	2d	2d	2d
8832	2d	2d	2d
8960	2d	2d	2d
9088	2d	2d	2d
9216	2d	2d	2d
9344	2e	2e	2e
9472	30	30	30
9600	32	32	32
9728	32	32	32
9856	33	33	33
9984	34	34	34
10112	35	35	35
10240	36	36	36
10368	37	37	37
10496	37	37	37
10624	35	35	35
10752	35	35	35
10880	33	33	33
11008	33	33	33
11136	33	33	33
11264	32	32	32
11392	30	30	30
11520	30	30	30
11648	2e	2e	2e
11776	2e	2e	2e
11904	2d	2d	2d
12032	2d	2d	2d
12160	29	29	29
12288	29	29	29
12416	-	-	29
12544	-	-	29
12672	-	-	29
12800	-	-	29
12928	-	-	29

Parameters	P962	XJR9	XGT-88
Mass	14 (20)	15 (21)	14 (20)
Air drag	18 (24)	18 (24)	18 (24)
Redline RPM	2AF8 (11000)	2AF8 (11000)	2AF8 (11000)
Upshift RPM	27D8 (10200)	27D8 (10200)	28D8 (10456)
Downshift RPM	1B58 (7000)	1B58 (7000)	1C58 (7256)
Idle RPM	708 (1800)	708 (1800)	708 (1800)
1st gear	7D00 (32000)	7D00 (32000)	7C00 (31744)
2nd gear	6338 (25400)	6338 (25400)	6238 (25144)
3rd gear	4A38 (19000)	4A38 (19000)	4938 (18744)
4th gear	3FAC (16300)	3FAC (16300)	3EAC (16044)
5th gear	33E7 (13287)	33E7 (13287)	326F (12911)

These are only useless number, but what's the real meaning?

Theoretical top speed: Melange 218.1; IMSA cars 211.9
Acceleration: Melange & P962 almost identical (because of the slightly different gear ratios); Jaguar ~7% worse
Top speed in each gears: Melange - 88.7, 112.0, 150.2, 175.5, 218.1; IMSA cars - 88.0, 110.9, 148.2, 172.8, 211.9
Auto trm upshift: Melange - 84.3, 106.5, 142.8, 166.8; IMSA cars - 81.6, 102.8, 137.4, 160.2 ---> since the maximal performance (~517 HP) can be found at RPM 10456 for all these cars, the IMSAs switch up a little bit too early, while Melange is more or less perfect in automatical upshifts (on flat tracks, of course)
Auto trm downshift: Melange - 73.9, 99.1, 115.8, 143.9; IMSA cars - 70.6, 94.3, 109.9, 134.9

[Duplode]

Also, Melange has slightly better handling due to inheriting car dimensions and terrain grip from LM002.

[CTG]

Also, Melange has slightly better handling due to inheriting car dimensions and terrain grip from LM002.

How I hate those magic carpets... (ZCT61)

[JTK]

Then send your partially finished files to Rotoi, I'm sure they will be useful as a starting point at least. And please send the VW bus shape to me too, as one of these days I still have to try my hands at the JTK-mobile 

When will my dream ever come true...