RKM Motorsport - Tuned Tuners - May '13

VTiRoj
It's for the trophy! :lol:

Nah it's just because I've been sleeping late. I can search for jobs and get Air Of Experience at the same time you know. PS3 is right beside my PC. :P
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:lol: it's just a trophy! It's not worth much! :D

And late as in how late? 5AM? And still no one wants you eh? :lol: My dad's toilet cleaning job is still open :D
 
Onboy123
:lol: it's just a trophy! It's not worth much! :D

And late as in how late? 5AM? And still no one wants you eh? :lol: My dad's toilet cleaning job is still open :D
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But I want the shiny shiny! :dopey:

5:30am. :lol: I did say sort me out with a work visa and a place to stay and I'm there. :P
 
VTiRoj
But I want the shiny shiny! :dopey:

5:30am. :lol: I did say sort me out with a work visa and a place to stay and I'm there. :P
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It's about as shiny as a drain, mate :lol:

5:30?!? The latest I've been up was when we did that fanfic race of yours. 4:30AM. No! Get the tickets and visas yourself! As for a place to stay? Well, your options are:
On my balcony
In the office toilet
Some random hotel
An immigrants shed <-- most likely :D
 
Onboy123
It's about as shiny as a drain, mate :lol:

5:30?!? The latest I've been up was when we did that fanfic race of yours. 4:30AM. No! Get the tickets and visas yourself! As for a place to stay? Well, your options are:
On my balcony
In the office toilet
Some random hotel
An immigrants shed <-- most likely :D
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Drains are shiny until you use them. :lol:

I've done worse. 4am is my usual bedtime though. :lol: It's the employer's responsibility to sort the visa out actually. :P Hotel! :D
 
VTiRoj
Drains are shiny until you use them. :lol:

I've done worse. 4am is my usual bedtime though. :lol: It's the employer's responsibility to sort the visa out actually. :P Hotel! :D
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Ok, but I'll make it your job to pay for the bills :D
 
@Roj Have you ever considered the military?
Guessing here that yours works somewhat similar to the U.S. you could get specialist training in a field that would pay quite well once you fulfilled your commitment. For our services you can sign up to get the specialty training of your choice as long as you score well enough on the tests. So you could do a few years learning and getting experience as a computer technician or aircraft mechanic or some other field that has skills and certifications that transfer directly to a good paying, and in demand civilian occupation.
 
GT350GT
i would not be on the front line, too hectic mate
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That's why you go in for a technical specialist job. Helicopter or aircraft mechanics, electronic repair, computer programmer or repair, things like that. You are very unlikely to be someplace people would be shooting at you and you can get training and certifications for a good job field once you get out.
 
GT350GT
thats what i'd do haha! tried your "pocket monster" best fun i've ever had!
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Glad you enjoyed it. I need to update it sometime soon as I think I can make it even better. Must say though its one of my favorite cars in the game.:crazy:
Never would have believed that a Kei car would be one of my absolute favorites considering all the great sportscars in the game, but the way it drives and all the different things you can use it for and be competitive while racing if not outright dominant!:D:bowdown::gtpflag:
 
cactusOnR
What sort of work are you after Roj?
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Some quiet office job where I can slack off and browse GTP. :lol: Nah but really, something with computer design is ideal for me since that's what I studied 5 years in college for.
XDesperado67
@Roj Have you ever considered the military?
Guessing here that yours works somewhat similar to the U.S. you could get specialist training in a field that would pay quite well once you fulfilled your commitment. For our services you can sign up to get the specialty training of your choice as long as you score well enough on the tests. So you could do a few years learning and getting experience as a computer technician or aircraft mechanic or some other field that has skills and certifications that transfer directly to a good paying, and in demand civilian occupation.
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Nope and I don't have any interest in joining the military. I respect what the military do for the country, but it's not the direction I want to take with my life. I already have qualifications so that's not a problem. 👍
 
VTiRoj
RKM Motorsport’s Ferrari 458 F

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Tuner Comments:
This is the 458 F. The F stands for whatever you want it to stand for, because not only is this 458 fast, but it’s fun too.
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Well now...time for a fun review!

I thought it would be fun today to cruise through the new dealerships and see what I don't already own, so after picking up a brace of new Audi TTs and gawping at the price tag of the Ferrari F2007, I realised there was one more blue tick missing for Ferrari.

Unsurprisingly, I never actually bought the Ferrari 458 Italia, I just ignored it while I was busy buying the rest. Yes, even the 512 Berlinetta got priority over the Italia. My basic hate for the 458 stems from the same basic reasons I hate the new GT-R, which I won't get into.

So after a bit of pondering, and a glance towards the gods of tuning at RKM, I thought I'd buy an Italia and give it a go...just to see if I was missing the same cold lifelessness that the GT-R has. Definitely without the finesse befitting any sort of real Ferrari, I set about slapping some gaudy chrome wheels, carbon firbe splitters, canards, hood and wing, before giving up looking at my 'creation' and breaking out the black paint. After glueing some Halfords generic performance enhancers to the engine and fitting that **** ugly triple blue tailpipe, I was ready.

With a barely visible Ferrari 458, fully tuned and with RKM's numbers dialed in, I started out on the High Speed Ring. Easy does it, you could say. Anyway, looking past it's ricer exterior and ignoring that obnoxious Ferrari exhaust note, I set about ploughing the 700bhp monster into that long left corner, hoping for an F40-ish scream of tyres and to see the carbon bits become part of the Armco, or at least soms shredded racing slicks. Almost surprisingly, the 458 held on at about 190mph through there, levelling with the barrier and heading down into the left onto the bridge.

Now, one of my biggest love/hates of tunes is the braking slide. Full lock + full brakes = one of two things. If you're familiar with a drift car, you know what the first one is...the car slides it's rear out, just waiting for you to drop the boot and slide round in a cloud of rubber. The 458? Just sticks, drops it's nose a bit and doesn't even twitch when you push it out at full throttle, shooting off towards the S section. As I now expected, the Italia kept glued down and kept a neat line through the S section, not losing composure under heavy braking or throttle.

Now accelerating through the tunnel, it was only the final left-hander to go. Since I'm a complete girl :sly: a quick tap on the brakes was needed to get some confidence before just going full lock and throttle, praying that the 458 would crash and burn stay composed, and it did. No real oversteer or understeer here, just a lot of go.

So there you have it. RKM have certainly managed to make the 458 seem almost worth my 100's of thousands of credits (which is seriously impressive :D ), with an agile and well composed setup that doesn't fall over where most cars do on the High Speed Ring.

And you never know...I might even come to...like the Italia o.o
 
Dragonthing
My basic hate for the 458 stems from the same basic reasons I hate the new GT-R, which I won't get into.
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You're welcome to express your hatred of the new GT-R here, we hate it just as much as you do. :D

Dragonthing
So there you have it. RKM have certainly managed to make the 458 seem almost worth my 100's of thousands of credits (which is seriously impressive :D ), with an agile and well composed setup that doesn't fall over where most cars do on the High Speed Ring.
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Thanks for the review and yeah, it almost does seem worth it just to try our settings eh? :P It certainly swayed my feelings about it when I tuned it, similar to how it's just swayed yours. Also remove the racing pipes, I think the stock exhaust makes the 458 more worth it. :D
Dragonthing
And you never know...I might even come to...like the Italia o.o
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I used to be in the same boat as you. I disliked the 458 and wished Ferrari would just go back to the 430 (screw that, give us the 355 again!), but then after seeing how capable it is, I did grow to like it. I'm still on the fence with the styling though. It looks like a bottomfeeder and I don't like how they've messed with the trademark [OO -------- OO] Ferrari tails.
NascarManiaco99
Just to ask, I did a double review, do I get two requests or wasn't that considered a review ? lol
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I'm going to seem a bit harsh here but they were kinda short. You can have one request for them though. :)
 
VTiRoj
You're welcome to express your hatred of the new GT-R here, we hate it just as much as you do. :D


I'm going to seem a bit harsh here but they were kinda short. You can have one request for them though. :)
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Please do! We need more smashed up GTRs in this world! And Roj, I hate the R35 more than you and RJ do :D

But he got his dad to write it, so that counts as a bonus so you must give him two! :D
 
VTiRoj
RKM Motorsport&#8217;s Coffee Car

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Review:

Kei Cars...underappreciated.

Born for the city, a city of small folk. Small enough to parallel park between two Tank Cars, or one Tank Car and your mother. These cars have a special place in my heart. As I jumped head first into GT with GT5, my first car was a GT500 Stealth. Now, at this point I had no idea how to drive a race car. So my first race in the Sunday Cup was easy, although I had crashed at ever single

As a Cappuccino lover, finding the right tune was special for me. I am going to enter a Cappuccino RM racing series and needed the right set-up. RKM has served me well in the past, so went here to see if they had tuned the RM Capp. They did, of course. And let me tell you some things.

First of all, the transmission is dead-on. I have tried to figure out a good balance of top speed and agility, and couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And this one is the best I've come across. I've found others with similar ratios but were extremely slow in 5th gear. This tune however stays pretty much solid until you reach 110-115 mph, but that is to be expected.

The suspension makes sense, and tuning that was probably a no-brainer for them. Same goes for aerodynamics and ride-height.

The camber angles, toe, dampers, and springs were all top notch. I thought a stock Capp takes corners well, but this set-up takes away a lot of the drift you may get from taking a turn at high speed or trying to power too much out of a turn.

The only thing I can say that I had trouble with was the brakes. I use late-breaking to get past the competition and this tune doesn't give enough braking power or sensitivity. It's not by much though, I can easily adapt to this. But, I up the break balance by one on the rear wheels to get more stopping power. This works for me, but perhaps not for you. So, try out RKM's tune first before changing anything, as the whole set-up is marvelous.

So, did RKM make the best Capp tune ever? I'm pretty damn sure they did. I was flying the first time I tried out their tune, I hope you will too. Dust off that little Cappuccino you have in your garage. Give it some life, let it taste some track, and it will reward you. Getting in a supercar or some sort of crazy racing car is great and all. But, if you really want the most enjoyable racing experience, get this car and tune it like this. The car moves so effortlessly. Try taking it on the Nurburgring and forget about lap times and positions. Let it take you somewhere, use it to study apexes, or be like me, and use it to learn how to drive.

This car tuned by RKM gets a 98/100.
The best Kei car, tuned by the best. Life doesn't get better.
 
Onboy123
Please do! We need more smashed up GTRs in this world! And Roj, I hate the R35 more than you and RJ do :D
No you don't. You're just more childish about it than we are. :P
But he got his dad to write it, so that counts as a bonus so you must give him two! :D
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Cipher22
This car tuned by RKM gets a 98/100.
The best Kei car, tuned by the best. Life doesn't get better.
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Thank you for the review and kind words! :D

You wouldn't believe the amount of times I drove up and down the main straight of Suzuka East, trying to get the ratios bang on. :lol: So I'm glad that got noticed. 👍 The brakes I can understand, there's no problem with raising the sensitivity a notch or two. 👍
 
Onboy123
That and the fact that Supras look good and r35's....don't. :D
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what's up with the R35 hate? Seriously, I like the car way better than much cars, and Roj, I understand about being shorter, I can improve that later. Still need to think on the requested car, since I have 400+ cars in the garage and I need to find one that i use the most lol
 
VTiRoj
Thank you for the review and kind words! :D

You wouldn't believe the amount of times I drove up and down the main straight of Suzuka East, trying to get the ratios bang on. :lol: So I'm glad that got noticed. 👍 The brakes I can understand, there's no problem with raising the sensitivity a notch or two. 👍
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I was so excited when I saw Cappuccino tunes here. And I was impressed enough with the tune that I had to write a review. Someone showed me a different tune to try, and didn't even compare to this one. RKMFTW.
 

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