Austin Martin Vanquish 04' help!

[Poochi]

Hey guys im looking for some settings on my Austin Martin Vanquish.
Its setup hasn't been modified....
So far its upgraded all the way:

Racing Exhaust
Racing Brakes W/Controller
NA tuning 3, Port Polish, Engine Balancing, Racing Chip
Trans:Fully customizable and fully upgraded with carbon shaft
Custom Suspension
Stage 3 weight reduction (might do roll bar for stiffness could add understeer)

Notes:
Brakes are not that great and effective
Gears are short. They never get to 6th gear and efficiently using horsepower like anticipated. Maybe longer top end. Better handiling..

Please help me sort of new to tuning thx Poochi
(I got about 780,000 of pocket change too lol!)

 

[panjandrum]

I've also had a heck of a time with the Vanquish. I think in the end it just isn't the greatest car. I have it tweaked all the way (just over 700 bhp), and it is the only car I'm forced to use Traction Control on to control the amount of rubber coating the ground in the first 3 gears. Top end isn't great no matter how much you play with the gearing and it seems to understeer more than it should no matter what I do with the racing suspension. Acceleration doesn't seem up to snuff for a machine with that much power. On almost any course I'll turn in better times with my Lotus Elise which has only 331 bhp. Of course, the Elise is hands-down the best handling vehicle I've found in the game outside an actual race vehicle, so maybe that's not a fair comparison.

It is, however, one hell of a beautiful beast isn't it? I've found a few courses where it does great and run it on those courses only. It's also wonderful to take pictures of.

Here's what actually helped some with the racing suspension:

Drop the vehicle all the way. It doesn't drop as low as a lot of other vehicles, so you might as well get it as low as possible. Stiffen the springs to taste. Toe the rears out a bit to try and promote oversteer instead of understeer. Splay the rubber out to about 5 degrees and use the softest tires you can for the race.

But, in the end, I think you'll give up on the car for most races. Too bad as it is one beautiful piece of work.

On a final note, I drive everything with all "nannies" set to "0" except this one car, it breaks the rears loose way too easily. I leave the Traction Control setting at 5 for this car or it simply becomes a pain. I leave the other nannies at 0.