Forza 3 ... MX5 miata racing...SCCA spec

[y2blade]

I built this car and race it with guys on another forum, we have a real hoot in them

NEXT RACE will be TONIGHT at 20:00

i'll fire out a load of invites and it's first come first served

IF you want to join and are NOT on my friends list then message me on XBL so i can invite you via your profile (my friends list is FULL)

PistonHeads	Gamertag	car built
Edit-Undo	Bigsteve174	yes
Baked Bean	Bakedbean69	yes
Rob P	highwayman7
Munter	PHMunter	yes
Coupe Daz	Astra daz	yes
y2blade (OP)	y2blade	yes
GT Kodiak	--
Richard S	RSpetsnaz	yes
Jelpsta	--
ajprice	Adrian Price
santacruzsteve	Santacruzsteve1	yes
nsmith1180	Godric VXR	yes
ConcreteBuffalo	ConcreteBuffalo	yes
RedBarron84	RedBarron84
FranV8	FranV8	Will do today!
Dimski	oO0S60Oo	Tuned, not set up
RacingPete	RacingPete	yes
eltax91	spongepaul	yes
John S4x4	oO John S4x4 Oo	yes
nicky.mattsson	nickymattsson	yes

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lifted from other forum----

So I'd like to keep the FM3 setups a close to the real SCCA rules as possible. Here's a quick link I found (not sure if it's the latest or not but should work as a starting point). http://www.specmiata.com/specifications.htm

Here are the specs for FM3. Obviously you start with the first gen MX5 miata and work from there.

Air Intake - Panel Filter allowed (Street Intake) - EDIT: Because it's the 1.8l, you can only use the panel filter
Intake Manifold - No mods allowed
Ignition - Spark Plugs allowed (Street Ignition)
Fuel System - No mods allowed
Exhaust - RACE exhaust
Cams - No mods allowed
Valves - No mods allowed
Engine Block - No mods allowed
Pistons - No mods allowed
Cooling - Street Radiator allowed
Flywheel - No mods allowed

Transmission - Short shifter allowed (Street)
Clutch - Street
Rear Diff - No mods allowed

Brakes - Street (pads and fluid)
Suspension - Race (for maximum tunability)
Front anti roll bar - Race
Rear anti roll bar - Race
Chassis Bracing - Full Roll Cage
Weight Reduction - Full

Wheel Diameter (front and rear) = 15"
Max tire width (front and rear) = 205/50r15
Wheel style = Any
Tire Compount = Sport

Body mods - Say none to keep it simple?

Engine Swaps - no
Induction swaps - no
Drivetrain swaps - no

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the car should come out at around D348 depending on what wheels you chose

Edited by y2blade on Wednesday 18th November 08:00

[y2blade]

mine

Edited by y2blade on Friday 13th November 17:36

[Baked_bean]

Count me in on a few races, my gamertag is: Bakedbean69
I might ont be on for a few days as i have lots of work to do but soon.

[y2blade]

Baked_bean said:

Count me in on a few races, my gamertag is: Bakedbean69
I might ont be on for a few days as i have lots of work to do but soon.

good man


anyone else?

[GT Kodiak]

Me!

I was planning on building a Miata up anyway, but perhaps not for racing

I take it this is going to be a case of "Planned Car for Random Races"?

[y2blade]

GT Kodiak said:

Me!

I was planning on building a Miata up anyway, but perhaps not for racing

I take it this is going to be a case of "Planned Car for Random Races"?

I will edit the opening post with race dates and times
was just gauging interest on here

the Specced Miata is a cracking little car i use mine for D class season races aswell as the miata only online races

[Munter]

I'll knock one up later. I might try and do it in my original Silver/red/black and white paint job...

[RedBarron84]

I'm interested in this. I'll build one up this week. Depending on what nights you hold it on (How about Mondays?) only then can I commit.

I do love me one make races me!!

Edited by RedBarron84 on Monday 9th November 09:45

[Rob P]

I'm in (gt: highwayman7)

Tend to be on in the day and then late evening, hopefully that fits in?

[Dakkon]

Munter said:

I'll knock one up later. I might try and do it in my original Silver/red/black and white paint job...

That would be pretty cool if you can put the paint job you had on your real car on that car

[BCA]

[Edit-Undo]

Hi, I'm up for this. I'm a bit of a lurker around here but my GT is Bigsteve174.
I've seen this on another forum I read and looks good fun.

[Richard S]

I'm up for this depending on when it's on.

[jelpsta]

Count me in too but i too would need to know when it will be held??

[Edit-Undo]

Just built and painted mine:

[Munter]

Edit-Undo said:

Just built and painted mine:

Is there an "On the Web do it on the PC" design editor? It's just doing what I want on the xbox seems quite hard. (Just had a go and failed miserably.)

[Richard S]

Munter said:

Edit-Undo said:

Just built and painted mine:

Is there an "On the Web do it on the PC" design editor? It's just doing what I want on the xbox seems quite hard. (Just had a go and failed miserably.)

There isn't unfortunatly. If you post a pic up of what you want to do I can have a bash at making it for you?

Edited by Richard S on Monday 9th November 13:13

[Munter]

It's the car in my profile pic.
The problem I had was I could apply a "big red square" to the roof, and could have gone on to do the sides, but how do I get it to fit the panel lines? Of course the answer may be that you do not!

edit: oops wayyyy off topic.

Edited by Munter on Monday 9th November 13:14

[Richard S]

Ah yes see it now, to carry on the red roof to the sides you have to apply decals to the left/right side of the car and just fidle about with them (size, spin etc) untill they fit the body lines.

[Edit-Undo]

Yeah as Richard S said, you have to try and find shapes that kinda fit, then fiddle around with them. Use semi circles and play with the size and skew to change the curves. Using "stamp" keeps the same shape you just used and allows you to place it again and again saving time. It still might take a while though.