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Yes, that was the idea; I wanted to replace the look of the car without affecting the handling. I suppose there is no way to do that? Does anybody know why exactly though?

I see. In that case would there be any way to compensate for it, or to override the way the physics engine behaves normally? You mentioned that the engine detects 'wrong values' - what did you mean by that?

Hello everyone, I installed some modded cars the other day and when I loaded up San Andreas, I noticed that the handling for the cars was changed. Originally I just wanted to give the cars a new look, so I installed only the model and texture files and did not modify the handling.cfg file. I just wanted to know why modifying just the model would affect the way the car performs - I had thought that handling was determined by the handling.cfg, and if I did not change it, handling would remain the same. Could it be something having to do with the physics engine (i.e having a differently shaped vehicle would affect performance that is not determined in handling.cfg) ? Thanks for your help