began to press criminal charges using a provision that was previously applied only against smokestack industries. Vehicle enforcement had traditionally meant civil suits, but in 2018 the E.P.A. has prosecuted pollution-control tampering on trucks, cars and motorcycles. The modified trucks spewed 1980s levels of contaminants, sending an avoidable 570,000 tons of nitrogen oxides and 5,000 tons of particulate matter into the air, the study said.Įssentially, it found that America has a problem with do-it-yourself dirty diesels.īut the issue is not confined to diesel engines. In November, the E.P.A.’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance issued a study that found pollution controls had been removed from 550,000 diesel trucks over a 10-year period. Taken to its extreme, that logic could prohibit stock cars like NASCAR’s. argued in court that under the Clean Air Act no road vehicle engine can be modified, even for exclusive use on a racetrack. Racing enthusiasts are concerned because the E.P.A. The software typically conceals itself from emissions tests - exactly as Volkswagen’s did for its lawbreaking diesels. Extreme examples enable diesels to “roll coal,” blowing thick plumes of black exhaust on command. The electronic devices replace the engine’s operating instructions with new instructions that can increase power but also pollution. No circle tracks, no sprint cars - it all ends.”Īt the heart of the conflict is technology that modifies a car’s emission controls - mechanically through aftermarket exhausts, or electronically by taking over a vehicle’s built-in computer. “Every drag strip across the country will be wiped out. “This will 100 percent eliminate racing within 10 years,” said Kory Willis, whose Louisiana racing parts shop, PPEI Custom Tuning, is facing enforcement actions. As amateur racers see it, environmentalists are outlawing their sport. Since the VW settlement, the Environmental Protection Agency has stepped up enforcement against car part makers whose products, in a quest for more speed or economy, disable emissions systems. gdb).You might think Volkswagen’s $14.7 billion dirty diesel settlement in 2016 served as a warning not to tamper with vehicle emission systems. Go to the trackconfigsbase.ini file you can find in each constructor folder here : GameData\Vehicles\CART_Extreme\1998 and look at the name of your track ( first line of the.
How to change chassis according to track : Vanport, Laguna Seca et Cleveland to come. Some tracks are also being updated to GSCE standards to suit this release - you can find Long Beach, Fontana & Vancouver already from the Game Stock Car Extreme modding section. You can find two of my videos here and here.
CART Extreme is an official revision of the original Racing Line Development´s CART Factor mod for rFactor with direct participation from some of the original developers and soon available for Game Stock Car Extreme.