BMW M Coupe

I love this car and I want to take it to the 4 hour nurburgring enduro, but I cannot get it to corner well enough. The power-on high speed cornering is terrible, and I have tried everything to get it decent. I am running a racing exhaust, full suspension, and hard tires. I just can't get the suspension settings right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Ive always like the m coupe too. Buy a brake controller kit and set front brake power to something low, and set rear brake power to soemthing high. That way when you brake into a corner, it will automatically induce a degree of oversteer. Also, go to your computer controls (whatever its called) and set the oversteer computer really low, and the understeer computer pretty high. This combined should give u some good results.
 
Minnesota01R6
I love this car and I want to take it to the 4 hour nurburgring enduro, but I cannot get it to corner well enough. The power-on high speed cornering is terrible, and I have tried everything to get it decent. I am running a racing exhaust, full suspension, and hard tires. I just can't get the suspension settings right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
i agree wit da last guys response. what ride height r u at, i always like to have it 10-20 mm above the lowest level and on an even number (i dont know why exactly, im kinda crazy) but that tends to limit body roll (cause major understeer) but the understeer is preventable wit' a softer tire.
 
try to avoid using the electronic aids, what you need to do is put a race suspension on, they are automatically set to understeer, so go into the settings. this is what i would do,

make it about 8-10 spring setting, (both front and back should be equal for all of this), the lowest height setting, about 4-6 on the bound and 6-8 on the rebound, depending on the cars weight, i think its about 1300kg so make the camber 3.6, zero toe and then 7 on stabilizers. once you have done this go into weight balance. put the balance to 50 (if the car is still understeering) and then slowly add weight until you have the amount of oversteer that you want. and then add power and everything else and youre good to go.

with the limited slip though, you shouldnt need it, but if the car is oversteering too much when you lift off the gas, raise the deceleration number. i always put torque and acceleration at 60. if the car is understeering too much when you lift off the gas, lower the torque.

good luck, and remember that high speed stability is extremely important at the ring much more important than low-speed understeer.
 
dont worry about the horse power.
get the power to the road. i.e. carbon drive shaft, clutch, flywheel, and maybe the adjustable tranny if uve got alot of credits.

Ride Height: About 98mm
You should be running a softer FRONT suspension ONLY, but not by rediculous amounts, keep the bound and rebound at their default levels. if you need it, turn on TCS to about levels 5-7 and oversteer help to 0 for sure.
Note: Settings are my personal ones (with the exception of TCS i cant stand traction control, I'm more apt to manipulating the throttle. I prefer a softer suspension, but that can lead to alot of nose dive when brakeing so you may consider -1or2 from default settings.)

👍 Jonerz 👍
 
50/50=orgasm
try to avoid using the electronic aids, what you need to do is put a race suspension on, they are automatically set to understeer, so go into the settings. this is what i would do,

make it about 8-10 spring setting, (both front and back should be equal for all of this), the lowest height setting, about 4-6 on the bound and 6-8 on the rebound, depending on the cars weight, i think its about 1300kg so make the camber 3.6, zero toe and then 7 on stabilizers. once you have done this go into weight balance. put the balance to 50 (if the car is still understeering) and then slowly add weight until you have the amount of oversteer that you want. and then add power and everything else and youre good to go.

with the limited slip though, you shouldnt need it, but if the car is oversteering too much when you lift off the gas, raise the deceleration number. i always put torque and acceleration at 60. if the car is understeering too much when you lift off the gas, lower the torque.

good luck, and remember that high speed stability is extremely important at the ring much more important than low-speed understeer.

50/50 is spot on! the camber and toe levels should be 3.6 and 0 respectively. You don't neccesarilly need equal suspension rate (er...spring rate) because haveing it can lead to an overall greater body roll which will make the car even sloppier.

👍 Jonerz 👍
 
Minnesota01R6
I love this car and I want to take it to the 4 hour nurburgring enduro, but I cannot get it to corner well enough. The power-on high speed cornering is terrible, and I have tried everything to get it decent. I am running a racing exhaust, full suspension, and hard tires. I just can't get the suspension settings right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Where did you get this car? I cant find it anywhere....
 
Somewhere around day 600 - it might have been a little earlier, I bought a used M Coupe - around $52K in Evergreen - a nice light green. :)

I will have to try some of these settings and see how well the car handles. 👍
 
Minnesota01R6
I love this car and I want to take it to the 4 hour nurburgring enduro, but I cannot get it to corner well enough. The power-on high speed cornering is terrible, and I have tried everything to get it decent. I am running a racing exhaust, full suspension, and hard tires. I just can't get the suspension settings right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


I've now had GT4 for a few weeks and finally got my Intl's, decided to play what I could enter with Dom. A/B first.

I too really enjoy this car, I picked it up from the used car lot the first time I saw it, a nice blue at about $45-50k. Loaded it up, got crazy one day and fully lightened it.

I am by no means an expert but it took down a '96 RUF CTR2, '00 RUF RGT and '03 Mazda BP Falcon RX-7 (DIGP) in the Professional Hall at the Tuning Car Grand Prix.

It was a 78 point A-spec race and a hell of alot of fun.

Was running,

Stage 3 NA - 441hp
Racing Med. (R3)- someone mentioned the competition matches up with whatever we're using!? dunno, would seem fair though.
Susp.
Springs F10.7 R8.7
Height F/R 99
Shocks Bound F/R 7
Rebound F/R 9
Camber F 3.0 R1.5
Toe - 0 - haven't played with it yet
Stab. F4 R5

Forgot about, racing brakes but I don't use a controller, it stops on a dime and is very smooth. Custom trans. @ default, traction aids @ default.

Let me know what u think, I ran it at Nur. before stage 3 lightening, with my incompetent B-spec driver and he ran a 7:12 (i think, don't quote me, i'll check later)
 
Oohh I love the M Coupe.

Usually with powerfull FR cars I keeps the rear suspension/camber/roll 1/4 to 1/3 softer than the front, however stiff/soft it needs to be to suit the track surface, and slightly more downforce on the rears. However I found a degree of the opposite to work a charm on the M Coupe.
 
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