I don't need any cars from you guys immediately but if you get the time an HSV GTS-R would be nice. That would be a wingless Monaro, around 430-480hp and on sports tyres, and no exhaust- stock exhaust please. 👍
) but luckily the tuning could cure it. Good to hear about the disappearance of understeer and even better to see that someone recognized the German double S!
) staggering for a car with such small (in comparation to others) power. Under acceleration it just keeps turning and turning with no sign of breaking away or understeer. Turn in is reasonably good, but brakes are one of its weak points. It's not the fastest at pulling up and turn in isn't perfect. In high speed approach corners or long sweeping corners it's easy to break out the rear end under brakes. Gearing was another thing I was a little disappointed in, the gear set-up is good, but the final drive needs to be wider to allow for a top speed in the range of 310-320km/hr. It only reaches about 290km/hr at the moment. You have to understand that this car is competing with the likes of 600hp+ cars and it will need the extra top end to beat cars like the Zonda LM or Ford GT LM spec II at tracks like Circuit de la Sarthe. But overall a staggering car, really unbelievable 👍
). I had previously got a 1:42:721 in the NSX R and that was good enough for me. I thought I'd take a second crack at the NSX, and at the same time so did MFT.
It seems I'll never get rid of the weak brakes people complain about or the overly low top speeds.
Not that I'd want to, though. While the car needs good brakes it does also need brakes that are predictable and that's why they're set up as they are. I'm fully aware of the rear breaking loose but then again, the other option was understeer and I'm sure nobody wants it. The car can be braked into whichever corner you want to, it just needs skill and that's why the Expert badge is there. The top speed then, with the amount of power it has making the gears longer would cause slower acceleration and rob it of one of its most important weapons. It's not aimed at the 600+ bhp LM race cars, more at the GT500 class. I know a good driver can rival the LM cars with it but they're of higher class with higher downforce and better specs all round. The +150 bhp thing was aimed at tuned road cars. And it's the brakes again...
well, see the former block of text. Maybe I just have a tendency of really stomping on the brakes and my settings are reflecting that. The understeer is quite inevitable in such a heavy car with no downforce, it wants to go straight but the suspension and tyres do a really work in stopping it, the handling is pretty exceptional for an American car as you found out.It's indeed a good bit different from the stock NSX-R, the understeer couldn't be cured entirely by suspension and LSD setup but I'm sure you're on your way to find out what finally cured it for good. Thanks for another one! 👍
It seems I'll never get rid of the weak brakes people complain about or the overly low top speeds.
Damn it sounded negative... but I'm sure you understand. Thanks for the review! 👍
True, the straight itself isn't that long. But the actual straight is preceded by another and the throttle isn't lifted between them. It's full acceleration from the hairpin to the braking of the first corner and the total duration is somewhere in the vicinity of 25 seconds. That's a quarter of the entire lap time and roughly estimating some 1300m in length. Considering that the car already flies out of the hairpin at around 100 km/h I'd say the straight is long enough to be used for transmission tuning for "normal" courses. Nürburgring, Sarthe and the ovals excluded.
True again. But it doesn't mean that the NSX is as good as the LM cars, it means that the AI can't drive. The NSX is quite well on a par with its JGTC counterparts when you drive both.
Impressive pace, your setup sounds like it's one more of the axe murderers we've seen in the past. Mine is indeed not as lethal as it could be (beats the RUF easily at that area if needed) but still very much of a demanding car when going for the last tenths. I know it's possible for me to break into 1'41 with it if I only got one good lap down.
Come to think of it, it's the negative things you've found I have to comment on to explain why the car is set up as it is. I also saw the edit but wanted to bring out my opinion of why the GVS straight is quite a good one for gearbox tuning.
), and it's pulling under 2-minute laptimes on GVS. it requires some throttle control since it has 555bhp, but the suspension could handle even 571bhp just as well.. do you want it now or shall I polish it some more?
Otherwise, I'll take delivery whenever you want. I probably won't be able to play the sony for another 12hrs or more though, so you have all that time if you want. 👍
