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Baja buggy Sidewinder

240 ShowMeYourStroke  2 days ago
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After 140 hours of building and tuning this vehicle, I'm ready to present it to you. This is a Baja buggy - a lightweight, frame-based race car designed for aggressive desert driving, featuring an extremely durable, energy-absorbing suspension system. It's like the younger brother of a Trophy Truck – somewhat simpler in construction but still retaining its key characteristics. Specifically, it has a 4-link rear axle with massive travel. It also features an anti-roll bar.

The front suspension is built on a double A-arm design, and by the way, I managed to implement hydraulic steering with tie rods on this buggy. The front end is quite stiff to direct the car into turns and accelerate to high speeds - one of the key design decisions, as with low stiffness, the front suspension quickly bottoms out, leading to rollovers or crashes.

Behind the suspension arms hides a 4-cylinder engine - honestly, it barely fit in there, and I had to redesign the first engine because it simply wouldn't fit.

Moving inside the cockpit, you'll see two racing bucket seats. Taking the driver's seat, we see the dashboard - quite detailed, but I'll admit honestly: this isn't everything I could have implemented. First - due to game limitations, second - due to my limited knowledge of Funky Trees. But anyway, all gauges on the center console work (except for decorative toggles and screens). I even managed to create suspension travel indicators for the navigator, which looks quite attractive.

I think for Simple Planes, this dashboard doesn't look completely empty - rather, it fits the game's stylistic approach.

On the exterior, we have plenty of lighting: main light in the form of a light bar, and auxiliary lighting with large spotlight lamps for nighttime driving.

Behind the crew sits the cooling radiator with functional fans. Right behind the radiator is a 150-liter fuel tank - generally, that should last quite a while.

And so huge thanks Silver Star with helping Funky Tree! That's probably everything I wanted to share. Give it a try, test it out in the desert and beyond - I'll be happy to receive any feedback!

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 6.6ft (2.0m)
  • Length 12.5ft (3.8m)
  • Height 5.4ft (1.7m)
  • Empty Weight 3,975lbs (1,803kg)
  • Loaded Weight 4,240lbs (1,923kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 3001

Parts

  • Number of Parts 1325
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 3,884