Lore on Falconeer: Founded in 1972 by a close knit gathering of PHD chemistry students whom were looking to make an entry into the aerospace industry by developing lightweight and high strength atomic-oxygen-resistant polymers in a 2-car home garage, "Falconer Group" became "Falconeer Group" due to a misprint at a local patent office, and the misnomer stuck. After establishing their material science reputation within the aerospace industry over the decades, with freshly employed MIT engineering graduates, in 1996 the Falconeer Group shifted their passion to restoring and revitalizing popular and historic road cars from many different and well known manufacturers. In the 2000's, Falconeer eventually began designing and selling their own meticulously engineered high performance kit cars, and producing one-off and exorbitantly priced circuit focused hypercars sold to the highest bidders in the early 00's to today.. "Xiphias" Features/Identity: -Mid-engine, rear wheel drive one-off modified track toy. -Magnesium/Al 4.2L flat-plane 32-valve Single Turbo V8. 1,024HP @ 6,400 RPM. -Suspension/handling/power delivery lovingly tuned at Nordschleife. -6-speed gated manual, geared LSD. -ABS. -No electronic traction aids. -Variable hydraulic rack and pinion power steering. -Fully detailed interior. -6:10 on Nordschleife Tourist in capable hands. Driving tips: -This is late 90's big turbo technology, which means lengthy spool times. Plan ahead for when the power comes on full. -Being primarily intended for the road and lacking a roll cage/chassis stiffening, the car is on the softer side, so smooth weight transfers are needed to stay fast (and pointing forward). -Recommend to drive with no electronic traction aids enabled. -This car is intended to be a bit of a handful. It may frustrate you if you're not an experienced sim-racer. Quirks: -This particular body exports from Automation with a lot of bugs and flaws, and it needed quite a few manual Jbeam adjustments (mainly floor pan and engine node lifts) to actually be good, so this is not entirely a direct Automation export, which makes me sad, but it is what it is. -I did the best I could to reign in the wobbles, but it still jiggles a bit during heavy braking. -Since I was in the files anyway, I manually edited the turbo behavior as well to make it more realistic to the era (read: laggier.) -I also increased turbo wheel inertia and friction to lengthen spool time, and dialed up the turbo-y "whoosh" and backfiring noises to 11. This car does everything it can to constantly remind you there's a big turbo, which pleases me. -Hope you enjoy!
