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I was personally quite surprised by the lack of a matchmaking setup. In most of the races I've been in there's been about 3 people up front and the rest far, far behind.
 
Hugo, trying to send your R3 Skyline back, but you're for some reason now showing as pending request on my friends list, need you to approve so I can send the car back matey!
 
TimBrad said:
Hugo, trying to send your R3 Skyline back, but you're for some reason now showing as pending request on my friends list, need you to approve so I can send the car back matey!
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Don't supose you could stick that tuning setup for the R3 skyline on the storefront? Just bought a V-Spec II and have it fully upgrading but the handling is a bit pants!
 
can any of you tuners give me some advice on whats wrong with my lambo, ive got it tuned pretty high to R3 level (gallardo) and for the most part its great fun but something weird happens on tight turns (might be tuning, might be a bug) anything sharper than 90deg and i get constant wheel squeal and horrendous understeer even at silly low speeds like 50 or less. Its still AWD but applying throttle does little to pul it round. Im thinking tweaking the differentials might help but im not sure which way to go, at these speeds it isnt a downforce problem and its not traction related. Frankly id prefer if it oversteered a bit rather than what its doing atm what you reckon?
 
Try stiffening your front springs and anti roll bars, that may help with relieving some of the understeer on turn in.

Also is your torque split set to 50/50 right now? if so move to something such as 40/60 (rear biar) which should give you more of a push round the corners than the car throwing itself 100% at them :)
 
For those of you having trouble getting a good tune, i'd recommend a tuning calculator, all the ones i've found so far have been in development but they still produce decent results.

They wont tell you what parts to use etc but will give you a very good base tune making a lot of cars much more drivable and from there you can tweak it to your hearts content.

I am currently using this one (second post) created by the same guy who made a popular and very good calculator for Forza 2.

On searching the official forums i found this one too, i've not tried it myself yet but you could always give it a shot.

Again they wont give a perfect tune but its a good starting place for those of you (like myself) don't have the patience to sit and try a lot of different settings.
 
TimBrad said:
Try stiffening your front springs and anti roll bars, that may help with relieving some of the understeer on turn in.

Also is your torque split set to 50/50 right now? if so move to something such as 40/60 (rear biar) which should give you more of a push round the corners than the car throwing itself 100% at them :)
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You're joking right? You want to soften the front Anti Roll Bars to reduce understeer.
I'd personally set the front:back differential to 25:75, maybe 20:80 - you still get the bonus of 4wd off of the line but personally I find the car drives a bit better with it heavily biased towards the rear.
If the car is especially stiff in low speed corners you want to lower the value the accel/coast diff settings have which will allow better turn in. Try setting some more drastic toe angles and increasing the caster too.
 
These tuning files, I assume you have to have the upgrades that the original owner has on the car?

Lets say you bought a standard car then bought a tuning file for it, will it apply or will it tell you that you need xxxxxxx upgrades?
 
TimBrad said:
Hugo, trying to send your R3 Skyline back, but you're for some reason now showing as pending request on my friends list, need you to approve so I can send the car back matey!
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thats wierd - ok will do later today hopefully , in the middle of a house move this weekend so likely to be hectic, thanks for letting me know though
 
Just got the microsoft wireless racing wheel which after an hour it's like the first time i ever picked up a controller as i'm finding it a bit of a hand full getting my car round the track plus find it hard to get a feel for the brakes
 
peterattheboro said:
Anyone had a play with this yet....?

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It's crazy!!
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No, but I WANT!
 
TimBrad said:
Try stiffening your front springs and anti roll bars, that may help with relieving some of the understeer on turn in.
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That'll help with oversteer, understeer requires a softer front.

These are the golden rules of understeer/oversteer balancing:

If the car is suffering from:
Understeer:
Decrease front spring stiffness
Increase rear spring stiffness
Oversteer:
Increase front spring stiffness
Decrease rear spring stiffness

Understeer:
Decrease front ARB stiffness
Increase rear ARB stiffness
Oversteer:
Increase front ARB stiffness
Decrease rear ARB stiffness

Corner entry understeer:
Increase front bump
Increase rear rebound
Corner entry oversteer:
Decrease front bump
Decrease rear rebound
Corner exit understeer:
Increase front rebound
Increase rear bump
Corner exit oversteer:
Decrease front rebound
Decrease rear bump

Corner entry understeer:
Increase front toe-out
Consistent understeer:
Increase rear toe-out
Corner entry oversteer:
Increase front toe-in
Consistent oversteer:
Increase rear toe-in

EDIT: torque bias..
On throttle Understeer:
Move torque bias to the rear
On throttle Oversteer:
Move torque bias to the front
A slight bit of throttle oversteer in AWD's is liked by some drivers, others like it when all of wheels break traction at the same point causing a slight drift.
 
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EYEREX said:
Just got the microsoft wireless racing wheel which after an hour it's like the first time i ever picked up a controller as i'm finding it a bit of a hand full getting my car round the track plus find it hard to get a feel for the brakes
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i know how you feel, i felt the same with mine, i'm starting to get better with it though.
 
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