Testing JPs TransAm 20000 from Redline at Pikes Peak - Assetto Corsa

So, I made this tune a long while back after watching the absolute masterpiece that is Redline, and I thought that an engine with 20 thousand horsepower was bonkers, and a car that can handle that power is also very bonkers, and that someone who could drive that to its limits is an absolute madlad gigachad. So I played the part of the mechanic and made it myself. This knockoff is what I came up with, its hard to push to its limits, it also has some pretty bad understeer, but at least it goes extremely fast and can do so for long periods of time, and it has DRS so it can reach immense speeds in places without lots of corners.
With a top speed surpassing 1100 mph depending on weather conditions, how much runway you've got (30 km is not enough) and how late you wait to accelerate before using the KERS/popping a Gold Nitro Cap, or reaching just above 1000 mph on the Top Speed Area map of around 30 km length, its a very insane car. The tyres are also so grippy and their parameters so wack that it jitters along the ground when its not driving about, its a monster that just won't sit still!
The test going up Pikes Peak was much slower than it could've been, since I have very slow reaction times, last measuring an average roughly 400 to 500 milliseconds which is abysmal, it means I just can't react reliably to rapidly changing input requirements even with my full focus. I try though, but it doesn't always go well.
#redline #transam #worldrecord #airmaster #assettocorsa #pikespeak

[@Rat_498]

Amazing work

[@mondrianman2169]

* Casually breaks sound barrier with piston engine *

[@Avetho]

LOL I know, its funny. However, it is theoretically possible, the engine of an 11000hp top fuel dragster puts out around 1100 pounds of downforce, which comes out to around 1905 pounds of total thrust given the pipes are angled out and back 45 degrees in each axis, so a 20000 horsepower engine at peak RPM would be putting out about 3464 pounds of thrust, which is 8.05% of the thrust output of the F-35 Lightning II, or 6.93% the thrust of the Thrust SSC land speed record vehicle, directed back out of the TransAm 20k's thrust-vectoring exhausts, which have Nitro-driven afterburners inside them like jet engines, because that's that they really are XD There's a surprising amount of plausible things in Redline, if you ignore the magic and the blatant violations of the laws of physics and look at the devices through the lens of realism instead of an epic animated film, its what I tried to do and I made this XD

[@mondrianman2169]

@@Avetho I watched Redline, it was real good. Also I didn't know the exhausts on the Trans Am were thrust vectoring afterburners. So, JP could slap some wings on it and fly around.

[@Avetho]

@@mondrianman2169 I'm not sure if its ever stated what exactly each vehicle has to make them unique and absurdly fast, but if you look at the back of the original 20kHP TransAm, the exhausts are smooth but they seem to be like ball sockets, which implies the ability to rotate. At high speed, it would give decent yaw control, such as JP drifting around a corner and using the thrust to give him extra turning force, and after Sonoshee pulled ahead with her jet-powered Crab Sonoshee, JP hits the power on more and turns out of the drift, even though a normal vehicle in similar conditions would've spun out from oversteer, so I imagine JP has some kind of yaw pedal in the footwell that lets him control the angle of those exhausts. I enjoy taking things that are meant to be simply enjoyed by watching and diving into the possibilities of tech to replicate it, its why I'm a big Make It Real fan and watch every Hacksmith video, and the whole deal with JP's TransAm thrust vectoring gets better when the TRZ Airmaster is basically a hybrid radial piston-jet engine, a real thing called a Motorjet btw, except futuristic and making 35 thousand horsepower, and since it always has an afterburner on given the exhaust plume coming out the back of the TransAm 20000 WR, its putting out around 6061 pounds of dry thrust, and 9204 pounds of wet thrust with the afterburner assuming a similar ratio as the F35 Lightning II's F135 engine. I don't like math, but the numbers I reach when I dive into the physics like this are exciting XD

[@mondrianman2169]

@@Avetho It's been a bit but was just about to mention the Motorjet until I fully read the comment. My biggest issue with the Airmaster is where the hell are the intakes on this thing?! The only way they'd actually get it to work without intakes is having an oxidizer (which tbh is probably what all Redline racers use). The only other explanation is in the end of this video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGLXk4Wkf9qHr9Usi=mEpcKTZtkp8RJQqH the guy talks about modern Motorjet concepts, (you've probably watched it) and when a video graphic of one is shown it has these cylinder like objects that reciprocate, which might be for the bore sizes mentioned. In the movie when the trike chassis is exposed, you see intakes on the side which match with the 2 parallel bars in the movie (kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3fUlJWnjbCBhbMsi=-8IsSLVNeVmsaoD_). Other wise the parallel bars are 2 inlines that use an oxidizer or there are intakes that are not shown.

[@mondrianman2169]

​@@Avetho WAIT! I JUST REALIZED! There's another engine in the trike. In front of JP, 4 exhausts, that's got to be the V8 from the pre-Redline Tans Am. I see how it works! The V8 must be what is used to have very quick torque and acceleration and the Airmaster with its insane HP and RPM give the Trans Am its ludicrous speed. Also the turbine has to be more Gold Nitro friendly than a piston engine, we'll have to assume they're using an incredible alloy that prevents them from having a rapid and unscheduled disassembling. Hell, who knows we'd likely have to ask a skilled mechanical engineer which is more practical for racing.

[@kevinperron5767]

Pretty cool

[@Avetho]

Thanks! I'm currently uploading another video on it, I figured out how livery creation works and spent the morning and some of my afternoon painting it as close as I could get it from reference pictures on Google Images. I also improved its handling a lot but unfortunately I have yet to improve the driver XD