A little help

[86 Firebird]

Hey. As you can see I'm new here, and I have a little problem. I just bought an A/C 427 for the british races, and can't seem to get the right tuning setup that works for me. I've tried some from here, gtvault, and other places. Can someone please give me a link to other sites that might have settings for this car that will work for me? I would greatly apperciate it.

One more thing. There was this forum that I used to go to that had some good tuning specs. The name was GT4 Garage or something like that. If anybody knows the site I'm talking about, I'd love to get the link.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Scaff]

Hey. As you can see I'm new here, and I have a little problem. I just bought an A/C 427 for the british races, and can't seem to get the right tuning setup that works for me. I've tried some from here, gtvault, and other places. Can someone please give me a link to other sites that might have settings for this car that will work for me? I would greatly apperciate it.

One more thing. There was this forum that I used to go to that had some good tuning specs. The name was GT4 Garage or something like that. If anybody knows the site I'm talking about, I'd love to get the link.

Thanks in advance.

Hey Firebird, welcome to GT Planet.

I don't have any settings to hand for you to use (as I'm away from home with work at present - my PS2 is 200 miles away), but I am sure that someone will be able to provide you with settings, also have you tried looking in Duck settings thread, which is stickied at the top of the thread list. The first post has alphabetical links to all his set-ups.

Alternatively why not start working on your own set-ups? Click on the GT4 Tuning guides thread that is also stickied at the top (or click in the link in my signature). Two guides and over 70 pages that will show you how to tune yourself, including working examples.

After all its always more satisfying when you win with your own set-up.

Regards

Scaff

 

[GM]

I know I say this to all these questions but look in Ducks workshop

Ducks Workshop

 

[whh01]

I want to ask some basic questions... When you tune something as fine as shock bound and rebound or camber... How do you know you are making progress? Do you take a car out to the track and swerve it back and forth and note that it responds better or worse? How can you make your tires last longer? How can you tweak the transmission in such a finite way and see a noticable change?

I have been at this for only a few months. I find this website very helpful and have been playing in my spare time and up late most evenings trying not only to finish the game but to come to a higher under understanding of automitive physics. I have been to Duck's Workshop and have printed Scaff's wonderful writings. But I need to be honest and say that without the extras from here I probably would have treated the game like Enthusia and Nascar 06 and TOCA. To me, this website is what sets Gran Turismo apart from the other games.

There should be a way to analyze what you have done in terms of tuning and see that it's for the betterment of the car in question. Maybe I have missed it. If so, PLEASE enlighten me.

One more thing for anyone who cares. I have found the easiest way to earn money is for B-Spec Bob to go to Laguna Seca and race in the Extreme series. It's a quick 200K plus you can sell the GT-40 for another 743K. So in less than an hour you can make almost a million dollars.

Why hasn't Sony sponsored a Gran Turismo tournament? I would absolutely watch that on G4. Thanks for your time.

 

[sucahyo]

How do you know you are making progress? Do you take a car out to the track and swerve it back and forth and note that it responds better or worse? How can you make your tires last longer? How can you tweak the transmission in such a finite way and see a noticable change?

My tuning:
- drive it slow and fast over a bump to test spring rate, ride height and damper
- doing slalom to test spring rate, ride height, stabilizer and damper
- drive it over corner with uneven surface to test stabilizer
- drive it hard on long and short corner to test camber
- observe corner exit behaviour to test toe
- brake hard to test brake balance
- observe on what rpm the car has most power, use it to tune the gear
- if it need to, change the tuning to favor tire life. Less tire spinning, less tire locking, less sliding, less camber, less toe, etc.

 

[viperpilot]

sounds like a nice program sucahyo! i want to be a car in your testing-program *gg*

viper

 

[86 Firebird]

Thanks for the help guys. I'll check out Ducks Workshop, and the others you suggested. I'll post again to let you know if I found a setting that helps.

 

[sucahyo]

sounds like a nice program sucahyo! i want to be a car in your testing-program *gg*

When in lazy mode I usually do only the first one.

 

[viperpilot]

don't worry about being lazy!!

viper