02-04-2014, 02:32 PM
(02-04-2014, 11:47 AM)Geredis Wrote: I think for upgrades it might work best if you were locked to the phsyical engine size. So length, width, layout, would be locked, everything else would get a limited slider that is locked by, say, 20-30% (in either direction) of your original design.
I don't think this accurately represents what can and has been done with updating parts to save development costs.
The Lamborghini V12 entered production in 1963 as a 3.5L enigne producing 201kW. It went through numerous upgrades until it's final use in the Murcielago as a 6.5L producing 471kW in 2010.
There are heaps of other examples of real world car manufacturers upgrading parts to save money on developing new ones and in the process gradually making something significantly bigger and better than what they started with.