Bowtie-muscle has been extremely kind and has allowed me to feature one of my tunes in his garage, and so here we have my INTEGRA TYPE R (DC5) '04 at 550pp.
This car was tuned using a DS3 on Sports Softs with no driving aids whatsoever, and has been tuned to suit this specifically.
Parts list:
Engine:
Stage 3 engine tuning
Sports computer
Racing exhaust (I thought that it sounded best)
Isometric exhaust manifold
Catalytic converter: Sports
Intake tuning
High RPM range Turbo kit
Nitro kit
Body:
Height adjustable, Fully customisable suspension
Racing brake kit
Stage 3 weight reduction
Carbon bonnet
Window weight reduction
Transmission/Drivetrain:
Fully customisable mechanical LSD
Fully customisable transmission
Aesthetics, Helpful stuff and Services:
Oil change
Improve body rigidity
Front Aero
Flat floor
Inch up 1: RAYS 57Gainer (Rims)
Boost meter (psi)
Rev. counter: 0-12000 RPM (The standard rev. counter tops out all of the time)
Speedo: 0-320 km/h (The standard speedo is topped out on long tracks all of the time)
Arctic silver metallic: Body color
Cool soda metallic (Toyota Aqua s): Brake Calipers (gives the car a cooler, less stand-out look)
Type E base (Driver number)
Type B font (this car looks good with a number on it)
The Aesthetics stuff is all what I think suits the car the best, and I spent a lot of time trying to get it looking this good. The overall idea of its look is: A fast and nice looking street racer that looks like less than it is.
Setup:
Suspension:
RH: 109/130 (front/back)
SR: 7.09/8.12
D(C): 2/4
C(E): 1/4
ARBs: 3/4
CA: 1.0/0.5
TA: -1.00/0.05
Brakes:
Balance: 2/3
Transmission:
Max speed: 250-320 km/h (Auto defined): Depending on track
Drivetrain: LSD:
Initial... : 13
Acceleration... : 25
Deceleration... : 16
Engine:
Limiter: 100%
Power boost level: 100% (meant for overtaking on short straights)
Weight:
Ballast: 92kg at +%26
Stats:
550pp
443 BHP
1080 kg
57:43 Weight distribution
37 kgfm (torque)
Power to weight ratio: 2.43 kg/BHP
Stuff to know:
This car was originally just a test car for me to learn about FF drivetrains better. I drove it in over a dozen races of varying 'pp' and tyres, and with the money that the car made; I tuned. In one case I managed to beat an FXX at the Autumn ring in this car with a similar setup. After testing it on several tracks I found that this particular setup was pretty good all round for me. This car performed especially well at Eiger Nordwand Short track, where it surpassed the times of my RX-7, NSX Type r, and Nissan R33 GTR, by a few seconds. Around Trial Mountain it runs at about 1:30.xxx without nitro. It can run average 7:15.xxx times around Nurburgring fairly easily, and has once achieved a 7:11.xxx without the nitro. With a better driver I am sure it could do better, and maybe even reach the Nissan GTR Nismo official time.
Random fact: I managed to do a full front flip on the jump at Eiger Nordwand by smashing and holding the brakes in mid air; it landed, did an endo, and then flipped clean over.
This was perhaps the first car I started to use without ABS, and it was a good learning experience: It tends to smoke the front tyres from 200-150 km/h when braking hard, but it does not lose too much traction as a result, and its deceleration does not decrease as a result. Trail braking is also not a problem; it can actually be used to gain grip on corner exit if you drive with a heavy throttle. It is necessary to use the gears a lot in certain corners, and can take a while to learn grip patterns with gearing, but it all comes with time. On longer corners at certain speeds this car is extremely fast, and maintains a lot of grip the whole way around. On most corners the car pulls 1.5 g's or so, but on more intense corners it reaches 2.0 g's and over.
I have tried to decrease the understeer that most FF cars suffer, and it works well with this car, but corner exits have always given me trouble. However, it is extremely sporty and competitive for an FF car; it is the fastest one I own; the fastest I have driven also.
I would like to thank Bowtie-muscle for letting this tune be displayed, and I hope that anyone who wishes for a good FF car can find what they want in this tune.
