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- EivlEvo
Welcome to EivlEvo's Tuner Review Thread!
Introduction
I've been a player since GT1, and a casual tuner since then as well. I've noticed that while there are a great many tuner threads, there are but a few review threads. I'm not here to step on anyone's toes, I'm simply looking to contribute to the forum. As such, I'm mainly interested in reviewing tunes that have yet to be reviewed, and perhaps if I'm able to develop enough credibility offer a contrasting or coinciding opinion on tunes that have already been reviewed.
The reason I elected to start my own thread was simply for organizational purposes. For some of the larger tuner threads, reviews get lost as they are rarely co-located with the actual tune they've reviewed. While personally the review is a bit more useful to a tuner than it is to a user, they certainly have their place for the user.
With all of that said, I plan on reviewing as my schedule permits, and I welcome any comments or feedback.
Format
Upon selecting the car to review, I will generally read through all of the tuner notes, and make a track selection based on their tune, or my abilities. The tune will almost always be compared to something, be it another tune, or the stock vehicle. The tune will be rated on a scale of 1-5, where 1 is the worst, and 5 is the best. An example of a 5, or "perfect" tune would look like this: 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 whereas a tune receiving a 1 would look like this: 👍 👎 👎 👎 👎
The tune will be posted in this thread, as quoted from the original tuner's thread, and will be followed by my review. A copy of my review will also be posted directly into the tuners thread, but as I've alluded to, those threads can become quite lengthy and finding a review for a tune can be rather impossible. Hopefully, this method will come across as a bit more organized. I will make the review as thorough as I feel it needs to be, and I would urge the end user to read it in it's entirety, though I will typically have some bulleted points to highlight my key thoughts.
Current Reviews
1. JG's Tune Shop: Mitsubishi FTO Super Touring Car
2. Ronald6's Tune: Caterham Seven Fireblade
3. RUF Yellowbird: 6 Tunes Reviewed
Introduction
I've been a player since GT1, and a casual tuner since then as well. I've noticed that while there are a great many tuner threads, there are but a few review threads. I'm not here to step on anyone's toes, I'm simply looking to contribute to the forum. As such, I'm mainly interested in reviewing tunes that have yet to be reviewed, and perhaps if I'm able to develop enough credibility offer a contrasting or coinciding opinion on tunes that have already been reviewed.
The reason I elected to start my own thread was simply for organizational purposes. For some of the larger tuner threads, reviews get lost as they are rarely co-located with the actual tune they've reviewed. While personally the review is a bit more useful to a tuner than it is to a user, they certainly have their place for the user.
With all of that said, I plan on reviewing as my schedule permits, and I welcome any comments or feedback.
Format
Upon selecting the car to review, I will generally read through all of the tuner notes, and make a track selection based on their tune, or my abilities. The tune will almost always be compared to something, be it another tune, or the stock vehicle. The tune will be rated on a scale of 1-5, where 1 is the worst, and 5 is the best. An example of a 5, or "perfect" tune would look like this: 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 whereas a tune receiving a 1 would look like this: 👍 👎 👎 👎 👎
The tune will be posted in this thread, as quoted from the original tuner's thread, and will be followed by my review. A copy of my review will also be posted directly into the tuners thread, but as I've alluded to, those threads can become quite lengthy and finding a review for a tune can be rather impossible. Hopefully, this method will come across as a bit more organized. I will make the review as thorough as I feel it needs to be, and I would urge the end user to read it in it's entirety, though I will typically have some bulleted points to highlight my key thoughts.
Current Reviews
1. JG's Tune Shop: Mitsubishi FTO Super Touring Car
2. Ronald6's Tune: Caterham Seven Fireblade
3. RUF Yellowbird: 6 Tunes Reviewed
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so I began to pay closer attention. As the lap times continued to roll in, the clock was telling me all that I needed to know about that attention to detail. 1:23.024, 1:22.7, and 1:22.045 was the quickest I cared to muster. These times were interspersed amongst a dozen or so laps (mentioning for credibility's sake) with the quickest coming on lap 5. What I discovered with this car was that it was essentially a knife edge. If you elected to race conservatively and never really utilize the cars full potential, you might never know what this car is really capable of. It almost caught me in that trap as I was ready to fully shrug this tune off as not much better. However, if you have the stones to take it to the ragged edge, the car would push back all day long, but if you even THINK about taking it over the edge... see ya. The thing about that last bit... the "see ya" isn't really even a race ending spin, it's typically understeer that leads to an outside line departure, but since the car handles so well off road, it can be easily corralled back onto the track without dumping too many positions. 
(I was using RH -15/-36 with 7.9/11.9 springs/no ASM but there was damper compression that hit the ride)
Seriously though... I suspect this tune can still be polished up a bit, but I've had a VERY difficult time finding many faults with it. The advice I'd offer to No_OBsT33R would be to get with Budious over at Deep Forest Tunery and perhaps share some notes. It seems both tuners realized that the ballast was the answer, and (for obvious reasons) these two tunes felt the best. I think theres still some tweaking to be done in how much weight and where exactly to place it, hence why Budious and No_OBsT33R getting together would be a big thing for this car.
(It's ok, really! 
