		Venturi 400 GT By Captain
Here is an e-mail if you want to give your comments. :
	  TheCaptain@technologist.com
          LeCaptain@usa.net (if you are sending attached file like picture...
				... see at the end of this file)

Visit my Web page: http://members.xoom.com/CaptnDesign/index.htm
(Be careful with capital letters)

Installing the car :
Unzip the file  ....   .... in this sub-folder
  car.viv		...\Gamedata\Carmodel\V400 (create it)
  shv400.qfs            ...\Fedata\art\showcase  (1)
  03_00.qfs             ...\Fedata\art\slides    (1) (2)
(1) : if you don't have this sub-folder in your hard drive, the reason
is that you are currently using a partial install of NFS3. Don't create
the sub-folder(s), it will be no use, because the game will still search
for these files on the CD. 03_00.qfs is the loading slide, and shmega.qfs
is a little showcase.

(2) The current serial number of the car is 3. If you have another car
with same serial number, change one of them to avoid conflict. (use a viv
decoder like vivwizard). You must know that changing the number requires 
renaming the file 03_00.qfs into @@_00.qfs where @@ is the new number.
If the new number is higher than 49, you won't see the slide. (so, if
the other car has no slide, rather change the other's car number)


I tried to give this car real technical settings, so don't change them. 
The Venturi 400 GT is an exotic car you won't see every day on the road.
The production (Couëron, France) is very tiny. Last 4 years, they 
produced less than one car per week. Venturi is now the property of
Lorinser-Benz, known in south Pacific for their importations of Mercedes,
Lotus, Hummer.
The Venturi 400 GT uses the Peugeot/Renault V6 engine (used on the 406 coupe),
but the power is improved from 194 hp to 408 hp thanks to two intercooled
Garret turbos. With it's light weight, the Venturi 400 GT is a rival (but a
bit faster) of the Porsche 911 turbo.
When the Venturi 400 GT became a production car (it was first a race car) 
it was the only one in the world using carbon brake disks as a
standard equipment. The convenient is that carbon disks need to be hot to work
properly (unappropriate on road), that's why since 1996, the car is also
available with steel disks.

I didn't have every data I needed to make this car, so it can be updated one day, 
if I find the missing information, but the perfs seem to be correct.
Maybe you will find it too slow to be in Class A, but I've put it there because
I managed to race faster on slow tracks like "Summit" and on very fast tracks like
"Atlantica" than with the Scighera.

This car has been built from EA's Lamborghini Diablo SV 
The sounds are modified from the scighera.
I used the following tools:
              CardCad
              MRC Cartool
              VIV Wizard.
	      Qfs Suite
	      Breeze designerV2.05 and POV-RAY V3.0 for dashboard and steering wheel
	      AXE Hexadecimal editor.

I needed many many hours to build and test it.

Thanks to:

         All the authors of Carcad, VivWizard ... and so on...
         The Webmasters who will accept this car for downloading.

This car may only be distributed freely, and this file must be included.

You can use the mesh to build another car, under three conditions:
1. Everyone could rather recognize the car you are building rather than
mine.
2. You will inform me about what you are doing before sending it on the web.
   Then send me a capture of your car.
3. Write in your "readme.txt" you used my car.

Hope you'll enjoy !
