380PP NR-A Roadster Cup

[Motor City Hami]

I haven't posted this tune to my garage yet because I am still working on it. The 89 premium Miata was always an easy car to make handle well until the 2.09 update. I have been working on the car over the past week to get some of the added 2.09 understeer out of the car, but may have gone too far. Below is the tune so far. I will post the final tune sometime this weekend.

2011 Mazda '89 NA Special Package from Premium Garage
166hp, 831kg, 380PP
DS3, stick extenders, ABS 1, all other aids off.

GT Auto
Oil change after 200 mile break in

Installed Parts
Weight Reduction 3
Window Weight Reduction
Carbon Hood
Engine Tuning Stage 3
Titanium Racing Exhaust
Fully Customizable Transmission
Clutch: Twin-Plate
Flywheel: Semi-Racing
Carbon Drive Shaft
Adjustable LSD
Suspension Fully Customizable Kit
Comfort Soft Tires

Online/Offline Tune
RH -15/-10
Springs 10.0/5.5
Dampers ext 8/4
Dampers comp 4/3
ARB 3/3
Camber 2.2/2.0
Toe -0.17/0.10
LSD 9/11/5
Brake 4/8
Ballast 0
Ballast Position 0
Weight Distribution 55/45
Power Level 99.4%
Final gear to 4.000
Top gear to 112mph/180kph
1st gear 3.900
2nd gear 2.650
3rd gear 2.030
4th gear 1.655
5th gear 1.400
Final gear 2.650
Top gear 112mph/180kph
Top Speed 158 mph

If the car is too loose for you on entry, raise the LSD decel a bit and make the brake balance more even.

If the car is too loose for you all the way through the corners, either lower front springs or raise rear or both. Springs more even will calm the car down some.

Loose is fast, if you can hang onto it.

 

[Johnnypenso]

I sometimes wonder whether anyone at PD realizes that no one outside of their offices actually knows what, specifically, "expert-level race event" means. Which makes it a little pointless to keep notifying us when it is one.

This is what happens when the game is programmed by bureaucrats and clerks and not virtual drivers or people actually familiar with the game.

RH -15/.10

Would that be -10 or +10?

 

[Motor City Hami]

Would that be -10 or +10?

Sorry. -10. Corrected in the above post.

 

[Jaywalker]

Oops! I turfed all but 1 of my MX5's...

 

[takeshiRejs]

Installed Parts :
Lightweight stage3
Engine stage 3
Ecu tuning
Titanium Exhaust
every other is on you 💡

L.S.D.: 7,15,10

Suspension:
Height: -20/-15
Spring Rate: 10.0/8.0
Damper Extension: 4/3
Damper Compression: 4/2
Anti-Roll Bars: 3/4
Camber: 2.0/1.0
Tow: -0.06/0.20

Transmission:
5-close
only first Indy Race set full customizable with top 240 Km/h



Downforce
NONE

Brakes:
7 - 7

Ballast 30Kg
Ballast Position 50

 

[Ills1999]

Oh man! Forced to read people complaining about SRF again!

 

[D-Max]

All that hard work in my ridiculously underpowered car that I just managed results in, for a level 1 ticket? I am disappoint! Lol

 

[AMG.]

Oh man! Forced to read people complaining about SRF again!

WARNING:
You're spamming the thread with nonsense though. Nobody is forcing you to read this particular thread. If you have nothing to contribute don't post for the sake of posting.

 

[Ills1999]

WARNING:
You're spamming the thread with nonsense though. Nobody is forcing you to read this particular thread. If you have nothing to contribute don't post for the sake of posting.

I understand. Just as nobody is forcing people to complain over and over about SRF, nor are they being "forced" to play seasonals if they've 'outgrown' them. Obviously, PD has heard the complaints and has, for some reason, chose to ignore them.

The warning you issued me should be issued to all who choose to go on and on about this issue.

Maybe those who feel SRF is 'beneath' them can slap on some comfort hards and get over it?

 

[ZachAttack1991]

I haven't posted this tune to my garage yet because I am still working on it. The 89 premium Miata was always an easy car to make handle well until the 2.09 update. I have been working on the car over the past week to get some of the added 2.09 understeer out of the car, but may have gone too far. Below is the tune so far. I will post the final tune sometime this weekend.

2011 Mazda '89 NA Special Package from Premium Garage
166hp, 831kg, 380PP
DS3, stick extenders, ABS 1, all other aids off.

GT Auto
Oil change after 200 mile break in

Installed Parts
Weight Reduction 3
Window Weight Reduction
Carbon Hood
Engine Tuning Stage 3
Titanium Racing Exhaust
Fully Customizable Transmission
Clutch: Twin-Plate
Flywheel: Semi-Racing
Carbon Drive Shaft
Adjustable LSD
Suspension Fully Customizable Kit
Comfort Soft Tires

Online/Offline Tune
RH -15/-10
Springs 10.0/5.5
Dampers ext 8/4
Dampers comp 4/3
ARB 3/3
Camber 2.2/2.0
Toe -0.17/0.10
LSD 9/11/5
Brake 4/8
Ballast 0
Ballast Position 0
Weight Distribution 55/45
Power Level 99.4%
Final gear to 4.000
Top gear to 112mph/180kph
1st gear 3.900
2nd gear 2.650
3rd gear 2.030
4th gear 1.655
5th gear 1.400
Final gear 2.650
Top gear 112mph/180kph
Top Speed 158 mph

If the car is too loose for you on entry, raise the LSD decel a bit and make the brake balance more even.

If the car is too loose for you all the way through the corners, either lower front springs or raise rear or both. Springs more even will calm the car down some.

Loose is fast, if you can hang onto it.

Worked very well. I just switched the lsd to my liking and the top speed for the track. Won fairly easy, london gave me a little trouble but after running a 1:02:58x on the 4th lap and the rest were mid 1:03, i knew i was gonna catch up to the leader. Got a Prelude SiR '96 from my ticket.

 

[kent2406]

Now if only I could find a Miata! They're about as rare as a GTR!

 

[Nexviator79]

Raced in a Eunos Roadster J limited II (NA) 93. Upgraded the tranny and drivetrain components. Set the top speed to 155 for INDY, 112 for Rome Circuit Reverse and 137 everywhere else. I did have to upgrade the HP for Indy, as 128 HP wasn't enough for me to win. My level one ticket was a Alfa Romeo GTV 3.0 V6.

I do hope Cargo Rat gets well soon. His posts are always entertaining.

 

[oink83]

Yeh, getting a bit fed up with the ease of these events. Got another video for it though as always, perhaps some people will find it useful.

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[skidpan]

Raced in a Eunos Roadster J limited II (NA) 93. Upgraded the tranny and drivetrain components. Set the top speed to 155 for INDY, 112 for Rome Circuit Reverse and 137 everywhere else. I did have to upgrade the HP for Indy, as 128 HP wasn't enough for me to win. My level one ticket was a Alfa Romeo GTV 3.0 V6.

I do hope Cargo Rat gets well soon. His posts are always entertaining. Btw, did his looping issue ever get resolved?

Cargo did manage to resolve the looping issue thanks to a massive amount of hard work by himself and a host of clever people. There is a separate thread on this topic elsewhere in the forum.

 

[StirlingMoose]

SRF forced on again. What the **** are they thinking? Back to the TT then. Won't be bothering with this one.

 

[SirAlanClive]

Yeh, getting a bit fed up with the ease of these events...

Indeed. Thanks God for WRS.

Bought the Eunos Roadster (I was in my GTP_Rossi account where I have no cars ), maxed it out then dropped the engine limiter to whatever to get 380 pp. No tune necessary. ABS = 1 all aids off except that damn SRF.

I got through my first account to level 40 A and B spec without ever using a tune or a wheel. Managed everything except the Alfa Romeo Special Event and the Vettle challenge. The only thing I used to do was adjust the top speed of the transmission (down 1 or 2 steps, depending on how windy - that's wine-dee - the track was) to get a bit more bite out of the car.

On Indy I put it up 3 steps to 240 kmh and draft the other cars to get up to top speed - the car can't do it itself (Nascar style )
London is down 2 steps (190),
Suzuka is default (210),
Trial Mountain is default (210) and
Eifel is down 2 steps (190)

Had to 'work' at London and Eifel, used 2 tries on each.

[Rant]
This is 'poor man's tuning' but the point is that if you can't manage gold this way then you can't drive and you need to learn to really enjoy the game (if you can't manage gold like this then I'll bet you haven't got your licenses!). Tuning is for getting those tenths and hundredths you need in a competition, not golding these super easy races.
[/Rant]

 

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

Maybe those who feel SRF is 'beneath' them can slap on some comfort hards and get over it?

I don't think SRF is beneath me as I play in an SRF online room for at least half my playing time each week. However, I never use it offline; offline I use all aids off including no ABS, so it bums me somewhat that SRF is being forced on recently.

In regards to comfort hards though, challenge accepted. I'll let you know how I get on and save any interesting replays for possible Youtube goodness. I'll be doing it while juggling with fully opening my new tuning garage. Was supposed to have it up last week, but with 2 deaths in the family, plans had changed.

 

[playnthru]

missed that.

 

[C_Raccoon23]

PD continues to prove that they don't know what options are or how to manage this game.

 

[NCRthree]

Nevermind.

 

[Giulietta73]

I wonder if PD are wrestling with a huge bug at the office - the kind of bug that is the result of too many updates perhaps - and SRF seems to solve it for some reason that even PD don't know.

Maybe with SRF off, the pp can be lowered to a point where the payouts are in excess of 20 million Cr.

OR.....you'll be really fighting to hold on to last place at max. PP and RS tires.

 

[Cote Dazur]

I thought about writing something funny and sarcastic about forced SFR, but decided not to, as after all it is not forced, as we can decide to ignore those SFR on seasonnal, which is what I am going to do.
If enough of us do ignore them, it will be the best signal, as I am sured this is monitored. I there is not enough of us to make a difference, then I am not loosing anything as I have zero interest in drivng in GT5 with SFR on anyway.
my 2 cents.

PS, I think the future GT Academy will be with SFR forced on.( sorry could not resist)

 

[StirlingMoose]

I thought about writing something funny and sarcastic about forced SFR, but decided not to, as after all it is not forced, as we can decide to ignore those SFR on seasonnal, which is what I am going to do.
If enough of us do ignore them, it will be the best signal, as I am sured this is monitored. I there is not enough of us to make a difference, then I am not loosing anything as I have zero interest in drivng in GT5 with SFR on anyway.
my 2 cents.

I wholeheartedly agree.

PS, I think the future GT Academy will be with SFR forced on.( sorry could not resist)

They'd have a lot of repair bills when the winners got into real cars.

 

[NCRthree]

Thanks for posting the tunes.

 

[FormulaKimball]

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[SirAlanClive]

As of September 2012 9,190,000 copies of GT5 had been sold. GT5 AE and GT5 XL are not even factored in here. I think we can say 10,000,000. (Polyphony's data)
I'd risk a guess that 90% of the 'good' (read critical) English speaking drivers are in here somewhere. There are 233,654 members here. Let's be overly-generous and suppose 100,000 of them don't like SRF. The English speaking crowd is probably the biggest, but let's be overly-generous again and allow the French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch forums to have as many disaffected players as we over-generously supposed here, and the Japanese can have double as they are probably very numerous. That would mean that 800,000 out of 10,000,000 were disappointed, 8%. My figures were way too generous and I think maybe we could say at most 1-2 % of GT5 disc owners are now thinking that PD is 'doing it wrong'. 98% probably like SRF or don't care. One major flaw in my reasoning is that I'm not accounting for active GT5 disc owners. But I can assume that first-time buyers of AE or XL are casual players, as the extremists among us bought the original long ago.
Just some math to brighten up the discussion and bring some perspective 👍.

 

[Adrenaline]

There's an entire thread for discussions relating to SRF. That includes the people for it, against it, the people complaining about the people for it, and the people complaining about the people against it. Please use the proper thread: SRF on seasonals

This thread should be used to discuss the actual seasonal itself, strategies, tunes and cars used to be successful in it. Not the aids that we can do nothing about. A Mod has already warned us about spamming the thread with these type of posts, I recommend we heed his suggestion.

 

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

I never liked the fact that aids are sometimes forced on in the license tests throughout the entire GT series, but comparatively it's only recently that I have been using internet forum boards. So I had no 'voice', which would make me unaccountable, but the above seems you would include me as more of a casual player who is not bothered by driving aids being forced on. Not true.

I'm sure there could be many, many people in the same situation as myself, it's simply impossible to estimate how many people do and and don't play the game currently (as not everyone has an internet connection either). All PD can do is track the data on their servers that are hosting the seasonal events. Like has been mentioned, if numbers dwindle enough, and they see people on forum boards stating their distate, maybe they will get the hint.

Now off to do the seasonal for the first time, and will do it on CH tyres. Hopefully I'll get it done before I have to leave in the next hour.

 

[Ills1999]

I don't think SRF is beneath me as I play in an SRF online room for at least half my playing time each week. However, I never use it offline; offline I use all aids off including no ABS, so it bums me somewhat that SRF is being forced on recently.

In regards to comfort hards though, challenge accepted. I'll let you know how I get on and save any interesting replays for possible Youtube goodness. I'll be doing it while juggling with fully opening my new tuning garage. Was supposed to have it up last week, but with 2 deaths in the family, plans had changed.

Excellent. I hope it's a decent solution to the issue. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Giulietta73]

I'm not an SFR fan but the fact that PD are still giving us free races, TTs and DTs gets a 👍 from me.
Back on topic before this thread gets locked.......the Eifel race is a good one - very close. And thanks to Motor City Hami 👍 for the davice on the right car and tune. I merely went into the standard garage and chose the eligible car with the highest PP - it was way too slow!