Car Tuning

[DaveBrawl]

Do any of you know of a game with really deep car building/tuning? I had this IHRA drag racing game for the PC years ago where you could change everything about a car right down to the engine bore and stroke. I loved that part of the game, but the racing aspect was awful. The difficulty of the game determined how fast your opponents car went more so than the class/type of car. A stock street car could outrun a Top Fuel car easily on the easiest difficulty, and if your car had too much power the car would pop up in the air and flip on it's top as soon as you put it in gear.

I had another one called Gearhead Garage where you just took the car apart piece by piece and upgraded everything and customized it. Something like this is what I really want, but this game was pretty limited in parts you could use as upgrades and even car models themselves until a little online community developed for it after I had quit playing. Plus it was extremely unstable it would crash and corrupt your game at any time without warning fairly regularly.

I could probably dig those games out right now, but I doubt they would run on XP or 7. I don't care if it's PC or Xbox, but I want to be able to change more than the typical camber and gear changes.