Hey Raven, have you had any spare time to test my tune yet?
I've spent the last two evening sessions testing the Evo IX at Suzuka, tuning all five ferrari's for Fuji F and collecting huge sums over at Daytona in the Ford GT '06. In between a couple sessions at the Spec III GTP_Qualifier at Suzuka East just for fun. The Suzuka East sessions in particular gave me a lot of insight into your driving style and settings for the Evo IX. Allow me to explain.
Without giving away too much about the Spec III qualifier, let's just say it's a drifter's dream. You can slide the Skyline Coupe easily through the esses and punch the gas on demand without ever losing the rear end. Not much of a challenge imo. Still, I got to try a different driving style (agressive, slightly out of control) at a track that is suited to that particular touch. Then I took the Evo out at Suzuka.
My first set of times with your settings were quite high. Nowhere near the 2'.07's you were turning. I looked at the settings and found the lower downforce in the rear and big brake settings perplexing. Especially in light of how out of control the car felt with my normally controlled and measured rhythm. So I moved on and tried a "B" setting of my own. The Evo with my settings went around 4 seconds faster immidiately. "I'm a tuning god" was the last thought I had before I closed up free lap and moved on. How
wrong I was.
The next night I returned to work out the tranny problems inherent in all the Evo's (I despise that tight first three gear thing) and decided to take your tune out for one more go. After a lap or two the handling suddenly brought to mind the GTP_Qualifier I had run the previous afternoon! I began attacking the Suzuka course in the same aggressive and on the edge style that worked so well at Suzuka East in the Skyline Coupe. Pushing hard to the hairpin, the brake setting made perfect sense. This is the way this car was meant to be driven. The result was 4 seconds off the previous best time with your settings!
What does all this mean? It means that although my settings are still .325 faster with me behind the wheel, in all likelyhood I'd never catch you on track with your setup because it is suited for your style of driving. 👍 That is why you are division 1 and I am in division 2.
There is no way for me to tune a faster Evo in a short period of time for you because this is not my normal driving style. As a tuner, I have to be honest with myself. I have not reached that level of diverse and personalised service...yet! One thing that I can take away from this test is a new driving style that I can tune for in the future. Hopefully this will bring in a new client base.
Thanks for the tune Jack.