First of all - you DO need the oil change. Fresh from the dealership and all power upgrades 'only' got me to around 790bhp, oil change put me right on 823bhp 👍
Classic Krenkme lunacy, this, so I built this up thinking it might be amusing to try the 600pp Suzuka seasonal
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This is big, heavy, very powerful and 4WD: antithesis of my usual lightweight fayre, and not a great combination for cornering prowess, so even with Sport Softs I just kept going off track on the first couple of laps.
After getting used to it, it was fun - very early braking is required and you can't really carry speed through the corner, but point out the other side and hold onto to your hat! I found my best run through the esses was taken by pointing inside the apex and drifting through in the old school style. The really slow corners are the tough ones due to the understeer, and tendency for the rear to break away under power, and I couldn't out perform the back marker AI.
I finished a lowly 9th, should have been 8th but over ran at Spoon (which now luckily is a nice paved run-off area). Understeer in, understeer and/or power oversteer out depending how you take the corner - it is a handful and more practice needed I think!
It is fast when you get the power down, and needs a certain driving style to get the best out of it, but ultimately punches below its hefty weight, as far as PP racing goes. It is fun to hoon about, though, and its wild ways gave me an idea 💡:
A set of Comfort Hards and a tweak of the torque distribution to 30:70 then off to HSR for the 4WD drift trial. 2nd run gave me 10500 (1000 more than my previous). Clueless does Drifting
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Can we put off-road tyres on this? The Eiger is calling!
EDIT: I should say, @
krenkme has done a good job with this brute - it has over 800 hp and is really quite driveable. Perhaps the credit wasn't given above. That was really just a report from the seasonal race against a multimillion <
insert your currency here> field of supercars
.
EDIT 2: Yes, we can use off road tyres. The wheels/tyres look a little small though.
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This was fun, if a little cumbersome. As on the blacktop, very early brakes are needed - partly because it rather heavy, and partly because you accelerate to ridiculous speeds very quickly.
Again, once you get used to it the beast is quite proficient here at Eiger. Second lap I used Torque split of 45:55 for better traction, but at the expense of a bit more understeer if I didn't get the back end round enough. It's size makes it really planted - no bouncing about and really quite stable. There's a lot of throttle modulation due to the big power, but floor it on the straight and you can barely tell that you're on the gravel
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Great fun and a decent Eiger K lap at just under 4:04 - a bit more practice I think could get under the 4:00.
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Also, on a different note, you can now take dirt pics without the shocking jaggies. yay 👍