Cars Ford Transit 2005 (WIP)

[bob76]

wil thee be a s1 version to? big cool rims and a bit lower ?

 

[garyjpaterson]

wil thee be a s1 version to? big cool rims and a bit lower ?

Yeah I hope so.

I have the physics more or less ready, though I'll wait till this model is 100% before I start making the S1 (will be minor changes visually anyway).

Its basically the 2004 Mustang Cobra SVT engine swapped in, with a few other tweaks here and there to help it keep up (LSD, sticky rubber, better brakes etc). But really it still has the same suspension geometry, just slightly lowered, which makes it just hilarious to drive.

These are old pics, but this is the rims I will be using (maybe spruce them up a bit), they are from the Mk7 SportVan or whatever its called.

Oh I found an old video of it too:

 

[garyjpaterson]

The 12 year old in me wanted to put two hand prints

 

[soverlands]

You missed the "wash me" write in the dirt

 

[hal4000]

You got hand prints, I got fancy fire stripes... (And a lightbar)

 

[hal4000]

Ok, one more..., couldn't resist this one...

 

[Willy Wale]

The 12 year old in me wanted to put two hand prints

Also available in white!

I'll get my coat

 

[Karl S.]

The 12 year old in me wanted to put two hand prints

There is so much potential in this..

 

[garyjpaterson]

Trying my hand at a bit of damage as well as dirt. Doesn't look great but its the first car I've added it to, will leave it for now and maybe come back to it later. This interior isn't going to finish itself!

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

can you flip it over? try knockhill kerbs

 

[garyjpaterson]

can you flip it over? try knockhill kerbs

 

[Leonardo Ratafiá]

I mean roll over (?)
oh man, it definitely needs a drift version

 

[garyjpaterson]

I mean roll over (?)

It probably could, just like you could roll any car. The CoG isn't actually massively high tbh (0.7m IIRC, Ford actually has data on this for all the van variants).

 

[aphidgod]

I imagine it'd take a genuine effort to flip one of those unladen.

An S3 version loaded with cargo might be good for a laugh, now that I think about it...

 

[garyjpaterson]

I imagine it'd take a genuine effort to flip one of those unladen.

An S3 version loaded with cargo might be good for a laugh, now that I think about it...

Need to rake out that data i had collected years ago. Pretty sure there is CoG height and position for unladen and fully loaded...

 

[hal4000]

You all better behave and drive carefully or you'll end up in one of these:

 

[garyjpaterson]

What do we think, should I include the fully laden Transit as the S1 version? Will that be something people are actually interested in driving or will it just fragment the userbase?

Anyway, I made it, heven't done any testing yet, just verified the numbers are all correct ingame.

Kerbweight 2070kg, weight distribution 58%F, CoG Height 0.770m.

Max Gross Mass 3325kg, weight distribution 42%F, CoG Height 0.916m.

 

[hal4000]

I love to have a heavy one. Good idea.

 

[davewilliams000]

Loving this! Looks like it will be good fun. When you release this I expect there will be many many TopGear style nurburgring videos!

S1 version: Fully loaded
S2 version: Mustang engine, lowered as you mentioned above
S3 version: Race version - Lowered more, stiffer suspension, front splitter, 550 GT1 V12 and a big GT1 style wing at the back lol
Joking of course on S3.... or am I?!?

 

[hal4000]

S4 version: Lightbar...