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Bowtie-muscle
About me:
These are my impressions, opinions and also me driving, so take what you want and throw the rest in the garbage. The reason I do these reviews is that it helps me as tuner to get better by learning the things “to do” and the “not to do”.
I think that anyone who puts out a tune to be reviewed deserves that we be honest with them, it’s the only way that we can help them better themselves at this craft. I think that we all want to get better at this and that we can all use some help from one another to achieve our goals. If you find that I’m to harsh, please tell me.
About the Tests:
All my lap times are shown in total seconds per lap, I use this method because it’s easier to calculate averages and other things. I run 9 laps on a track and keep my best 3 to calculate the average. I do all the testing in the garage test tracks, track grip = low.
Apricot Hill
First impression starting off, first curve, car oversteers, not dramatically, but could be helped a little. The first 3 laps I pushed the car to its max and beyond to see what I could get away with. It’s relatively easy to correct your mistakes but it does lack direction, meaning because of weight transfer you have to ease up into curves or lose time in correcting your driving line. I’m not very comfortable with this track, so it’s hard to analyze properly.
Deep Forest
It took me seven laps to find the right lines with this car, a battle of oversteering, loosing control on bumps and traction spin off. ... but once you get it, it’s was really a blast
, always on the border of chaos
, knife between your teeth
going as fast as you can through the curves/slopes/bumps of the woods. On this track the suspension does show some weaknesses, I can’t tell you (because I don’t know) if it’s the balance of the spring rates or the dampers ext/comp, or both, but the car has a tendency of wanting to kiss the trees as you enter the wooded area. (Maybe it belonged to lumber jack before.)
Tsukuba
On this track the MLSD shows some signs of needing a little more love, and yes again the suspension is guilty of not doing all it can to help this little monster eat up more seconds on the track.
General
Brakes:
This is just an idea, but maybe changing the brakes balance might help to alter the weight transfer on braking, Works good as is.👍
Power:
Never felt like I needed more, I’m not suicidal either.
MLSD:
Maybe a small revision would help the out of curve push.💡
Transmission:
Nothing to say but good job, this is just an observation from doing a few reviews of other tuners, but I rarely see tuners use another method of setting the transmission than using the flip method, I’ve tried a few other ways with some decent results, just wanted to know if you or any of the other tuners have tried alternate ways.👍
Suspension:
The achilles heel of this tune in my opinion of course. It does work ok, but what if you were able to bring it up a notch. ( not meaning the setting numbers)
General:
I have a list of a few of the garages that I always wanted to go try there tunes but never found the time to, yours was on the list so this is great.
It may seem that from all the critics I make that I don’t like the car, But I did enjoy it quite a bit, I just wanted more. What I liked was the handling on medium and long curves, the feel of speed, and the overall handling. The things I didn’t like was the outside traction wheel spin you get that makes the front end change direction out of hairpin curves or sharp curves, and the way the suspension seems to not be totally in harmony between the front end and the rear, you sometimes get a sort of jerking motion that unbalances the car.
It took a while to get use to it, but then it always takes me a while to get use to most cars, the more powerful, the more time. I’m still mowing the lawn with my Toyota 7.
Finally I tried it in the International B - Tour Of America - Willow Springs race. It handles very differently than on the test tracks, if someone uses this for these types of races they will rave about it. ( ya, I won much to easily, recouped 89000 credits to bring me back over the 46 000 000 credits, so I’ll be able to sleep now.
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STATS:
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on my garage, one of them is Porsche 996 GT4 replica, I used 39/61 weight distribution, high lock LSD ( Paul Guard 2 Way 50/80 ) and similar spring rate ratio + alignment to real life 996 GT3 Cup / GT4 racing/track spec, it was hell to tune and test. I spent over 100km driving just to get a base line setup.
