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AT FPV F6 Typhoon Review
I can picture Jeremy Clarkson driving this one screaming POWERRRRRRR the whole time and leaving the camera car behind in a trail of tire smoke. It's without a doubt a tail-out style street-chomper. Taking it through the tight twisties laying on the gas, you can amuse yourself for hours with sideways antics. And it goes without saying that it's fast in a straight line - the weak-of-stomach ought to bring an airsick bag.
So the car's got plenty of power and with proper throttle modulation it corners relatively well, but I do have a few complaints. Even with very long gearing, wheelspin cuts in REALLY easily, even in the power dropoff zone approaching 6K RPM, and if you're not careful and extend a drift for a milisecond too long, it'll either snap back on you or spin. Switch to a manual gearbox and drive it in the richest part of the band, and forget about it - you better have your affairs in order. I noticed you edited your diff settings over the night to weaken them - they might ought to have stayed in place. To take an extended sweeper requires very precise partial lift, since even at medium-high speed, too much throttle will unhook you. Too MUCH lift though, and the noseheavy sedan will understeer. Turn in, especially under braking, is difficult as well, unless you really chuck it in hard and break the back loose. My criticism is biased though - I'm not a huge fan of cars that rely on power oversteer to stay on the line. I like to have it available if I really get on it, but I don't want the car to REQUIRE it.
If the car were mine, here's what I'd do. For starters (and I know it looks awful on this car), a wing. This would obviously sort out a LOT of issues. A softer front suspension - though the car is obviously got some heft to suspend up front, I think with additional ride height, a softer front would make it more obedient. A SLIGHTLY softer rear suspension - It's not bad as is, but I think very slightly relaxing it might also help keep it on the straight and narrow. Relaxed stabilizers, particularly in the front - The back isn't awful, but having it so stiff up front, in my experience, increases the likelihood and severity of snap-back with the tail out. More initial torque in the diff - this would help dramatically to keep the car on the line. Combine that with a bit more camber at all four courners, some mild positive toe and weaker front brakes to counteract the difficulty at turn-in under late braking, and I think you'd see your lap-times drop. The car wouldn't be nearly as much fun to drive casually, but it would really mean business on the track.
I can picture Jeremy Clarkson driving this one screaming POWERRRRRRR the whole time and leaving the camera car behind in a trail of tire smoke. It's without a doubt a tail-out style street-chomper. Taking it through the tight twisties laying on the gas, you can amuse yourself for hours with sideways antics. And it goes without saying that it's fast in a straight line - the weak-of-stomach ought to bring an airsick bag.
So the car's got plenty of power and with proper throttle modulation it corners relatively well, but I do have a few complaints. Even with very long gearing, wheelspin cuts in REALLY easily, even in the power dropoff zone approaching 6K RPM, and if you're not careful and extend a drift for a milisecond too long, it'll either snap back on you or spin. Switch to a manual gearbox and drive it in the richest part of the band, and forget about it - you better have your affairs in order. I noticed you edited your diff settings over the night to weaken them - they might ought to have stayed in place. To take an extended sweeper requires very precise partial lift, since even at medium-high speed, too much throttle will unhook you. Too MUCH lift though, and the noseheavy sedan will understeer. Turn in, especially under braking, is difficult as well, unless you really chuck it in hard and break the back loose. My criticism is biased though - I'm not a huge fan of cars that rely on power oversteer to stay on the line. I like to have it available if I really get on it, but I don't want the car to REQUIRE it.
If the car were mine, here's what I'd do. For starters (and I know it looks awful on this car), a wing. This would obviously sort out a LOT of issues. A softer front suspension - though the car is obviously got some heft to suspend up front, I think with additional ride height, a softer front would make it more obedient. A SLIGHTLY softer rear suspension - It's not bad as is, but I think very slightly relaxing it might also help keep it on the straight and narrow. Relaxed stabilizers, particularly in the front - The back isn't awful, but having it so stiff up front, in my experience, increases the likelihood and severity of snap-back with the tail out. More initial torque in the diff - this would help dramatically to keep the car on the line. Combine that with a bit more camber at all four courners, some mild positive toe and weaker front brakes to counteract the difficulty at turn-in under late braking, and I think you'd see your lap-times drop. The car wouldn't be nearly as much fun to drive casually, but it would really mean business on the track.
That's me in a nutshell, but I'm certainly not ignorant to other cars. There's only a select few cars in the world I really truly dislike.
