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How To Make Your Car Lighter

By MadDog⁴⁴³

In this GUIDE I will explain how to make your car much lighter than other cars. I will explain the differences in weight on each part and the lengths of parts compaired to in-game. (so you can build objects that are a 1:1 ratio in scale)

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Category: Gameplay Basics

Languages: English

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18 Oct, 2017 @ 5:58pm

11 Mar, 2019 @ 12:48pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Weight Information

Lengths

Notes

Comments

Weight Information

Frame: 0.2kg-100kg, Default 10kg

Shock: 10.5kg-63.1kg, Default 11.5kg

Rod: 0.2kg-100kg, Default 10kg

Wheel: 16.1kg-114.4kg, Default 18.5kg

Engine: Default 105kg

Jet: 14kg-50kg, Default 50kg

Panel: Default 0.4kg

Angle Lock: 0.5kg-100.2kg, Default 2.2kg

Drivers Seat: Default 105kg

Lengths

The Seat is streched out to 1 meter by 2 meters.

The grid on the editor is measered out to be 0.4 meter by 0.4 meter.

The Default length for the Rod is 0.5 meter.

Notes

From what I've noticed I know to use Angle Locks way more because of the fact that they are much lighter than they should be. I was able to build cars using Angle Locks and I was able to reduce the weight in half. The main trade-off is that the Angle Locks are ugly and it takes time to hide them.

Angle locks are good for starters who don't completely understand the game, although later down the road you can make your car much lighter without angle locks or with a combination. One of the best tricks I've learned (thanks to a friend) is to set all frames to 0.2 and see what gets damaged; just double the strength of that part and keep repeating.

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Spiffo 7 Jun, 2022 @ 9:59am

Now I need to learn how to make a working car. lmao

selcius 9 Nov, 2020 @ 10:47am

ive used the tips in this guide quite a few times to make various cars

vetch 26 Oct, 2018 @ 2:16am

You can select the whole car, and hide the angle locks
Alternatively, you can double the sim frequency and divide the frame weight by 4 without losing stiffness

§𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕜Ɖ𝕒𝕟𝕜 9 Jun, 2018 @ 1:28pm

cood
ok

MadDog⁴⁴³ [author] 30 Oct, 2017 @ 12:04pm

Yeah

Fabertastic 30 Oct, 2017 @ 9:04am

Also if you pair this idea to just the cockpit of the car you could build a rather realistic car with crumple zones and such

MadDog⁴⁴³ [author] 28 Oct, 2017 @ 10:06pm

Good idea! That works as long as you're not trying to make a car that can survive a car crash.

Fabertastic 25 Oct, 2017 @ 11:19am

Heres another great way to make your cra lighter, if you swelect thew whole car the first thing that will come is the frames, reduce the frame weight and strength to 1 then select the seat and set repair speed to 10, your car will now not have damage done to it but it will be very light weight

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