Scoot Posted May 18, 2006, 5:45 pm	Sam, when you buy a new car it has to have an engine. Would it be possible to buy a car without an engine? I currently have 3 engines and 2 cars (the alto is fitted with a 1L but i have a 3.2L V8 for it also) and i would like to use the 3.2L V8 in a new car. I know I could buy a car with an engine and then sell the new engine back but I'd loose money that way. Does that make sense? I hope so, scott
*sam* Posted May 18, 2006, 9:05 pm	Scott, yeah I guess that makes sense. There's 2 reasons why it insists at the moment: one is so you don't order an incomplete car and then wonder why it doesn't move when you enter a race, and the other is that chassis are likely to have a much longer lifetime than any other component: we've seen many engines bite the dust, but no chassis yet. I could make sure you're given a warning but not actually stopped from buying an incomplete car? BTW a 3.2L engine won't fit in an alto..
Scoot Posted May 18, 2006, 10:36 pm	yeah a warning would be good. Also, to prevent what I have done, i.e. buying an engine too big for a specific car, would be to have a list of chassis that a particular engine will fit. That would be especially helpful when buying an engine as an upgrade. scott
*sam* Posted May 19, 2006, 9:15 am	You must have missed it, but when you're ordering a chassis you'll see one of the columns lists engine capacity. A engine of this bulk or less will fit. In fact you can go 20% above this but you'll have an exposed engine, which looks great but often takes damage before the armour does.. I wouldn't worry too much about having surplus engines at the moment, I'm sure you'll need them as replacements sooner or later (and I'll implement your suggestion about ordering incomplete cars too). You can always store your spare engines in the cargo compartment of one of your cars (=safer than using your lockup, which can get burgled), but I wouldn't leave them there in a race, as they're a bit expensive to risk damaging as cargo.