Gaming Car Mechanic Simulator 2021

[IDAFC21]

Well, trying to figure out my next move, I decided to take on the next story mission, since its been sitting there forever So the scenario is, this dude bought a "mustang", or at least this games version of a mustang before they released the Ford DLC (which I also have) that actually has a mustang........but anyways, he buys this mustang as a roller, so its basically a complete car.........except for NO engine, and also missing some front end body parts.



So he wants me to build him an engine. From scratch. So I do!!



This is the engine he wanted, so this is what I had to build. Here it is dropped into the car, with what I feel is a more appropriate color change for the head covers.



He also wanted the car repainted the "factory color", which I always fucking hate, because even tho there are several factory colors you can paint a car, it never fucking counts towards your progress unless its just plain white. So here we are.



With everything completed I sent it on its way. Didn't take many pics of all this cuz I just wanted to knock it out. But I did make a very decent $61k profit on this job.


So with that palette cleanser out of the way. I figured, fuck it. Lets do this. So I headed out to a barn, and just bought up every car that was in it Didn't look at what was wrong w/ them or what they needed, just walked up to them and clicked buy. And here they are!!



What we have here is an electric tesla roadster type car



Something that I think is supposed to represent a Volvo of some type




And an early gen Lotus Esprit!



This is kinda fun cuz these are definitely cars I normally don't work on. Especially the electric one. I can't remember the last time I willingly took an electric car in to work on it But I am most excited about working on the Lotus, so I will probably save that one for last. The volvo and electric car I'll probably just do my standard 50% parts quality restoration, but the Lotus I think I may just do a 100% restoration, because it deserves it.

Financially I'm going to lump these 3 all together as one job, and I'll tally up the total once I've restored them all and sold them. So far, just for the cost of the cars alone, I'm in it for $76879. Which......not bad for 3 cars! Tho, I still don't know what kind of work I'm going to need to put into them.... I haven't even popped the hoods on any of them yet, so who knows whats waiting for me.




Is Google paying attention to me yet?!?!?!

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Why does the mustang look like a Monaro?

 

[IDAFC21]

The front end is definitely not very mustang-ish

 

[IDAFC21]

Got the Volvo restored!

Stripping it down



Definitely not pretty.





But now it is!



Body repaired. Back on refreshed wheels and new tires



Now to deal with this...



Good as new!



Back in the car, along with the remaining underbits



Seems I forgot to hide the camera interface when I took this one



Body panels reassembled, fresh coat of paint. I left it the same color cuz I kinda liked it. She's all set!!



Next up: The electric car!

 

[Mook]

IDAFC21 can you clean up the first post and make it suitable for sharing? Game details, platforms, etc etc. And maybe a few pics.

 

[IDAFC21]

I'm off work tomorrow and its supposed to rain, so, I can probably come up w/ something.

 

[IDAFC21]

Mook first post redone

 

[Mook]

 

[IDAFC21]

Well back to work then. Got the electric car restored now!

Lets do this.



The electric motor is buried so far in this thing its almost impossible to see from the top, so, heres my first look. Ehhh



Lets just get straight to that I guess



Here it is stripped down to the "block"



Was able to repair about half the parts in this thing, and there were a few additional parts I was able to pull out of my warehouse for the stuff I couldn't repair. But overall, not too bad. Just like a rotary engine, there really isn't a lot to these



Getting it back together



Most of the components all go into this power electronic controller



And shes back together!



Time to deal w/ the suspension. I must say I have never seen this on another car yet. Guess to get the shock absorber to fit in the tiny form factor of this they had to reallllllllly compress the spring down so it doesnt clip thru anything



But either way, suspension is complete!





And since this is an electric car, they have battery packs. These are not in the best in the shape, and its missing one, but thankfully you can refurbish these, and I also have quite a stockpile of these in my warehouse that I've picked up from the junkyard.



All good!



And the motor is back in! Or what you can see of it at least.



Front end components installed



Body panels and interior back in, and fresh paint!



And this one is done!



Before, I likened this to a Tesla roadster because it's electric, but to be fair, the styling and even the badges on this thing are more akin to the Alfa 4C. And even to that effect, when I was restoring this, I discovered that like the 4C, this thing doesn't have power steering either You know I really should work on more electric cars. There's just so much little crap you DONT have to deal w/ on these things. I know Im stating the obvious, but no pistons, pistons rings, rod caps, crank caps, spark plugs, camshafts, timing gear, etc, hell you don't even have to worry about a fuel tank or fuel pump or exhaust parts. Maybe I'll add one to my fleet one day.

Also it was kinda nice only doing my 50% resto on these 2 cars, cuz I was able to pull several less than 100% parts out of my warehouse that have been sitting in there doing nothing and use those up. So with these out of the way now...........I can finally start on the Lotus! Which will be a 100% resto. Can't wait to dive into that one.

 

[IDAFC21]

Started restoring the Lotus!!!

Lets do this.



Taking this pic was the first time I ever laid eyes on the engine. This thing is weird. Its installed at like a slant.




Underneath looking just about as good as the top.....



But lets focus on getting this thing stripped out first.





Decided to just go ahead and get the new interior back in right away. Kind of a shame, because the drivers seat in this thing was like 98% good still. But its not 100%!!!! So completely new interior was purchased.





Got the front suspension all redone, and got all the parts for the rear suspension, but you really cant complete it until you get the engine and trans back in anwyays, so I"m leaving that for now.



Shopping list for the full front and rear suspension.



Frunk parts in



Next up. This thing.



More fun to come!

 

[Mook]

bluzohh6 you need this

 

[bluzohh6]

bluzohh6 you need this

Is it on game pass?

 

[Mook]

IDAFC21 is it on gamepass

 

[IDAFC21]

Yes I believe as of March 9th the year or our lord 2025 it is Mook !

 

[Mook]

bluzohh6 it appears, according to IDAFC21, this game is available on Xbox game pass.

 

[bluzohh6]

bluzohh6 it appears, according to IDAFC21, this game is available on Xbox game pass.

I thought I saw it on there

 

[IDAFC21]

Alright lets deal with this thing. Like I said this thing is weird. The cams are enclosed in their own "heads", and then they get bolted on top of the main cylinder head.



And because odd orientation of this engine, you basically have to turn it on its side instead of upside down to get to the internals. But........that does make it somewhat easier to deal with



And fresh new internals in!



Coming back together. Thats the cylinder head



The air filter setup w/ the dual carbs is kinda cool tho.



And all back together!



And back in the car w/ the rear suspension installed as well



Wasn't too bad of a shopping list to get this thing tip top again.



And the underside w/ new exhaust installed



Body panels and glass back on the car, and ready for an alignment




Now lets do something that paint.



And shes ready for the dyno!



And the results. Its not much, but this car weighs almost nothing. I took it for a lap around the race track and it was actually quite fun. Since its so slow you could actually push it



So. They are ALL done. And ready to be sold.



So to recap. I paid $76879 for all 3 of these cars. Restoring them all actually only cost me a modest $35746, so all in I need at least $112625 out of these. And they sold for..............................................$204979! So thats a $92354 profit. Which..........if Im being honest, I kinda thought it would be more. But it also does depend on the car, and the level of work you put into it, so, overall not BAD. But, for the amount of work to get that 92k, I don't know that I wanna go do something like this again any time soon. To break it down, the volvo sold for $36042, the alfa/tesla sold for $88226, and the Lotus sold for $80711, so it wasn't even the most profitable one even tho I did a 100% resto on it.

Now I need to figure whats next............ I'm searching for my next project car for myself. I really want either a Porsche Carrera GT, or Jaguar XJ220. Just need to find the "right" one.

 

[Broke EF]

I was SO close to buying this yesterday! I really should, but also really should not.

 

[IDAFC21]

Those are both good points.


Also................I guess this is whats next!



Decided to check out the auction lot for once and see if anything special was there, and well................here was this Zonda Revolucion. The thing is...........this thing is actually in REALLY good shape. All this is missing is a few cosmetic parts. The rear clam, tail lights, one of the headlights, and passenger side mirror, and thats IT. This thing even fired right up on the lot! I had to have it.



"estimated value" was like $106k and I picked it up for $107 something so right about there. This things gonna be easy. Not even sure how many pics I'll take of this, since everything looks almost brand new to begin with anyways. I probably will go for 100% resto on this. I HAVE been wanting to add one of these to the fleet.........but.......this ones almost too good I'm gonna need to pick mine up from the junkyard or something so I can actually put some work into it.

 

[IDAFC21]

Little more progress on the Zonda. Since this thing actually RUNS (so not used to that ) decided to pop her on the dyno right off the bat to see what I'm starting with.



Yeah we'll take care of that. Hell, even tho I'm selling this, I may pop on a FEW performance parts just for the hell of it. Next I did the usual, got her all stripped out! Look at all dat carbon Broke EF

NSFW!!



And here's the engine all ready to be torn down and rebuilt. God everything is still so clean on this thing. Pretty much every part on this thing is at least 50-60% or better. Pretty much the only parts I'm gonna need to buy for this resto are the consumable items. Which is why I might just splurge for some performance parts. Need something to spend my money on

 

[IDAFC21]

Got the suspension back in! I am many many hours into this game and just realized there's actually a lot of parts you can paint control arms, shocks, springs, even wheel hubs. So I painted all the control arms black, and went for a KW coilover type look for the shocks and springs. Also replaced the steel rotors with carbon ceramic rotors, because thats what this car SHOULD have.









And my modest shopping list of consumables. I now have lots of 50-60% parts stashed in my warehouse to use on future half ass flips, or to toss on customer cars as a certified "new" part.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Did you replace all 4 spark plugs on the Lotus or just the 3 'bad ones?'
Love the color scheme

You passed up the Skyline and the Evo for the super car ? Mook is disappointed.

 

[IDAFC21]

Did you replace all 4 spark plugs on the Lotus or just the 3 'bad ones?'
Love the color scheme

You passed up the Skyline and the Evo for the super car ? Mook is disappointed.

On this one I replaced all 4. They're so cheap there's no reason not to. I usually only do that for flips tho. If this were a customer car and only 3 of them were bad, I likely would've only replaced the 3. And when I had the car in the paint booth that stripe actually looked black to me, I didn't even realize it was dark green until I got it out into the sunlight But I still liked it, so I kept it. And yeah.......those cars in the auction lot are just background filler. You cant actually walk up to them or buy them. It's such a tease that they have an R32 lookin thing sitting there, but there isnt actually one in the game you can buy. There is an Evo/STi hybrid looking thing, and I've worked on several of them. I will add one to my collection one of these day. I do have the Nissan DLC tho, which has an R35, and a Silvia, which I still have not worked on either of those yet, but I definitely will.

Got the Zonda engine rebuilt!!! Here it is mid dis-assembly



Stripped out to the block



And reassembling!



I experimented w/ painting more parts on this one. I painted all the timing covers black



And assembled! With performance headers installed, and I painted the intake manifold, belt tensioner, and oil filter Could have also painted the power steering pump, fuel rails, and water pump, but I thought that would have been a bit much, and the water pump would have been hidden behind the TWO water pump pullies this thing has anyways. Sadly the thing on top, which is the thermostat, cant be painted, or I would have done that one.



And its back in the car! I also put the rear diffuser back in so it doesnt look AS weird I also did a performance air filter, performance rear exhaust, and performance fuel filter.



Also painted the starter



And the shopping list for the engine. 12 cylinders means lots of parts, but still. Nothing really overly expensive, or extensive. It's a LOT better than most of the junk I work on




Getting close!!

 

[IDAFC21]

Time to finish this bitch up.

Got brand new interior in, and wheels back on w/ new tires



All the rest of the misc bits back in the car (w/ the fuse box painted red ), along with the shopping list needed to get there, minus a performance fuel pump I purchased as well.





Body reassembled!! I pulled the rear clam and passenger side mirror that it was missing out of my warehouse, and then bought all new glass and headlights/taillights



Forgot to put the taillights back in before i snapped this



So lets get this on the dyno and see where we are at now. To recap, the performance parts I added were: air filter, headers, rear exhaust, fuel filter, fuel pump, and I think thats it. And I didnt upgrade any of them either.




And, not too shabby! I'll take that.



And a fresh look!



And lets just see what that translates to at the strip



Ok! Thats respectable. Now. Here comes my problem. I don't think I want to sell it I mean its not like I need the money at this point. I really like this thing and like what I've done with it. Including the cost of the car I spent about a total of $147022 on this, and its going to sell for $298128, so that would be a $151106 profit for me, which, is nice, but, eh.

To torture myself more I rolled out my Pagani Huayra so I could see them side by side. mmmmmm





And then for good measure I also rolled my Egg out



What do you guys think? Should I keep it? I think im gonna keep it. If I do, eventually I'll rip the engine back out and fully upgrade it.

 

[Boost Leeroy]

Just keep it!