Ferrari 599 tuning help

[Bursny]

stupidly bought this car instead of the 458 which i deeply regret, but i am trying to tune it, using a few specs from threads on here, still no good tho, understeering on most corners, thinking of selling the 599 and the cal 09 to buy 458......any ideas?

 

[skywolf23]

Hmmm it is not a wholly horrible car if you do not start adding hp and use soft racing tires. Maybe a bit of traction control so its back end does not kill you.

Think i slightly boosted mine, added a LCD, left the suspension stock and just upped the LCD to try and make it you know not homicidal.

 

[jjohan35]

Hmmm it is not a wholly horrible car if you do not start adding hp and use soft racing tires. Maybe a bit of traction control so its back end does not kill you.

Think i slightly boosted mine, added a LCD, left the suspension stock and just upped the LCD to try and make it you know not homicidal.

What's LCD?

 

[skywolf23]

Err lol sorry LSD, must have liquid crystal display on the brain today.

 

[jjohan35]

Err lol sorry LSD, must have liquid crystal display on the brain today.

He's having problems with understeer. Increasing LSD tends to worsen the understeering because you're limiting the difference in wheel spin. In other words, by increasing the LSD, you are making both wheels spin closer at the same rate. By doing so, the wheels will be unable to accommodate the corner since corners require the outside wheel to spin more times for the increased road distance while the inside wheel needs to spin less times for the shorter road distance. If both wheels try to spin at the same rate, the car will want to drive straight rather than turn.

Sorry I can't help the original poster. I was tempted to buy the 599 the other night but I already have four Ferraris. I bought the Lexus IS F with RM (own an IS in real life) and Camaro SS with RM instead. I think out of all the cars I've owned so far, the Audi R8 5.2 was by far the easiest to tune and drive.

 

[skywolf23]

Well i find with the 599 its got so much hp that the main problem is the back end going out with even a slight miscalculation on the throttle, and near impossible to correct, which is pretty spot on to real life with all aids turned off.

But my suspension is bone stock to since i knew better than to mod it up a great deal. Understeer in these cars usually means your braking too late or braking too hard into a turn, straight line breaking ftw in any ferrari or super car pretty much, if anything tapping the breaks into a turn will transfer weight to the front and give your turn in a bit more bite, but slamming them on will lead nowhere good.

Plus the custom suspensions are all setup generic, they are not tuned to the car when you slap them on so more often than not they will make any car worse unless you know how to adjust it for the cars tendencies and your driving style.

 

[jjohan35]

Well i find with the 599 its got so much hp that the main problem is the back end going out with even a slight miscalculation on the throttle, and near impossible to correct, which is pretty spot on to real life with all aids turned off.

But my suspension is bone stock to since i knew better than to mod it up a great deal. Understeer in these cars usually means your braking too late or braking too hard into a turn, straight line breaking ftw in any ferrari or super car pretty much, if anything tapping the breaks into a turn will transfer weight to the front and give your turn in a bit more bite, but slamming them on will lead nowhere good.

Plus the custom suspensions are all setup generic, they are not tuned to the car when you slap them on so more often than not they will make any car worse unless you know how to adjust it for the cars tendencies and your driving style.

What does this have anything to do with using LSD to reduce understeer? From all of my years racing on the track as a hobby, LSD turned up only worsens understeer.

 

[Bursny]

thank you, will turn the LSD off and give it ago, hopefully this will correct it,

 

[cj10]

the 458 is no where better

 

[epicKA8]

+1 for no LSD