So I've been working towards the Qwent-Palin objective for a few weeks (months?) now, and in the past week I managed to get Martuuk (eventually) and Palin to L5. 
It was close though. At Palin's I had literally run out of carbon, sulphur and SLF from doing the reputation "upgrade", and I had one L3 recipe of ingredients and one L5 for Dirty Drive tuning. (of course!).
I was Level 4 @ 98% having exhausted all my mats, and then hit the L3 recipe... And hey presto: Level 5 DDT! OK, I only had one shot at it, but it worked!
My Asp Ex went from boosting 384 to boosting 484. Nice!
And at Elvira's the L3 FSD changed my FSD range from 25.72 (28.26) to 34.76 (38.13) Lys. In the process I became a L5 acquaintance, so I just need some more arsenic, and go and buy some magnetic emitter coils once I get back from a jaunt into the black with my new runaway Asp.
I "did" lots of activities throughout my engineer-quest: visiting ruins, searching for UPs and UAs, missions, CGs, exploring, while consciously collecting an assortment of mats and cargo in my Clipper (plenty of cargo space to hold modular terminals, exhaust manifolds and all that jazz).
Good luck out there!
o7
It was close though. At Palin's I had literally run out of carbon, sulphur and SLF from doing the reputation "upgrade", and I had one L3 recipe of ingredients and one L5 for Dirty Drive tuning. (of course!).
I was Level 4 @ 98% having exhausted all my mats, and then hit the L3 recipe... And hey presto: Level 5 DDT! OK, I only had one shot at it, but it worked!
My Asp Ex went from boosting 384 to boosting 484. Nice!
And at Elvira's the L3 FSD changed my FSD range from 25.72 (28.26) to 34.76 (38.13) Lys. In the process I became a L5 acquaintance, so I just need some more arsenic, and go and buy some magnetic emitter coils once I get back from a jaunt into the black with my new runaway Asp.
I "did" lots of activities throughout my engineer-quest: visiting ruins, searching for UPs and UAs, missions, CGs, exploring, while consciously collecting an assortment of mats and cargo in my Clipper (plenty of cargo space to hold modular terminals, exhaust manifolds and all that jazz).
Good luck out there!
o7
