Correct sorry about that, fixed the post.
possibly the car is so unstable with it's tail on the tarmac I couldn't manage a clean lap to review in the data logger to check what happened to the car at 250+ km/h. I can tell you that at to make this car stable at the very high speeds it gets too, it's gets really twitchy at low speeds and to make it not so twitchy at low speed it develops loads of understeer at very high speed so this challenge is going to come down to who finds and makes the balance the best, not great at either high or low speed but good at both.
From the way you're describing the high speed issues it sounds like a downforce related problem. You can decrease the high speed understeer by stiffening up the springs, the car is essentially getting heavier as it goes faster so your spring rates are getting softer in relative terms and the weight transfer is being slowed as a result.
Thank you sir, I did know that info and when I stiffened the car to handle and stay stable at 250+ km/h the car got really really twitchy at low speeds. If i soften the car enough to be stable and fast in the low speed sections I lose so much control at high speed that I have to slow down or crash.From the way you're describing the high speed issues it sounds like a downforce related problem. You can decrease the high speed understeer by stiffening up the springs, the car is essentially getting heavier as it goes faster so your spring rates are getting softer in relative terms and the weight transfer is being slowed as a result.
Whether this will help solve your problem I can't say, but the more you know, the faster you'll go
Take some time but you will get used to it and being able to feather the breaks is big too.
I have been trying to tell you that.........keep at it so we can get you to use L1/R1 to start SHIFTING!
Bah too much movment on the fingers, need to find that right place and leave em for best conttrol, right trigger or square/X for shifting. let the thumb shift.
Was it a hire car? It's a world renown fact that hire cars are the fastest in the world
Sounds like you put it through it's paces, which I'd be disappointed about if you hadn't!! Shame PDiddy didn't feel it necessary to model the Torque Vectoring system, a wise old Indian once told me that they'd modelled the ATTESA system that help GT-Rs be the cars they are.
Try playing with the ride height to correct the wayward handling at low speeds perhaps, a lower overall height should help stability. This combined with low damper compression/ high extension might help to get it behave. These are just the routes I would explore but as you say, with some tracks/cars its often a case of picking which parts of the track are going to be best for the overall time and focussing on them, as long as the car isn't dangerously unsuitable for the rest of the track then you'll be all right.Thank you sir, I did know that info and when I stiffened the car to handle and stay stable at 250+ km/h the car got really really twitchy at low speeds. If i soften the car enough to be stable and fast in the low speed sections I lose so much control at high speed that I have to slow down or crash.
Only managing 1:49's right now due to split personality of the track car combo.
I'll get it figured out, only logged a dozen laps with the car. Kids are not sleeping well currently so not getting a ton of play time when I'm coherent.
true enough. I think I've got the ride height right it rotates well at any speed doesn't understeer too much, just gotta settle it down on exit and fix the transmission.Try playing with the ride height to correct the wayward handling at low speeds perhaps, a lower overall height should help stability. This combined with low damper compression/ high extension might help to get it behave. These are just the routes I would explore but as you say, with some tracks/cars its often a case of picking which parts of the track are going to be best for the overall time and focussing on them, as long as the car isn't dangerously unsuitable for the rest of the track then you'll be all right.
Was it a hire car? It's a world renown fact that hire cars are the fastest in the world
On one hand, I'm surprised that you'd even consider a Focus ST over a Boss Mustang, but on the other, I'm quietly delighted
Anyway, I've got a car to build, not sure which one yet, but I think this one will be lead by an Aston Martin style nose
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PS - I've just gotten back from the Isle of Wight, which has maybe 1 mile of road where you can legally hit 60mph. I've haven't seen so many Ford ST's since the last time I was in Scotland. Do you think there's a correlation between ST's and twisty roads?
Na I tried it, my controller moved more than I wanted in a lateral direction, *i'm quick and agressive with gear shifts*, so moving the shifting to the stick put the movoment in the center which doesn't move the controller nearly as much.Slacker..........
"borrowed" it did we? was it at least in good body shape when you returned it?
Love the color choice!👍 Glad I am not using that shade of blue.
650pp is the maximum allowed, if yours is below that then it should be fine as long as it meets the allowed parts and other fixed criteria 👍anyone put down any solid lap times with the GT40. The fastest lap I've been able to lay down with my current setup was 1.44.732 on cold tires doing the time attack method(1st lap cold tires)
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650pp is max or is it requirement to be at? new to the FITT trying to make sure im fulfilling the assignment correctly. currently at 601PP
cough...destiny...cough FOCUS Joseph !
What in pray tell did they do to it! That you would have to undo it to make it look good or driveable again. *making an assumption there*yyyeeeeaahhhhh i haven't even picked a car yet....
In other random news... we bought a Gallardo at work that is going to need some de-customizing because someone with more money than sense got a hold of it.
Those wheels look cheap and nasty, nice colour on the car thoughyyyeeeeaahhhhh i haven't even picked a car yet....
In other random news... we bought a Gallardo at work that is going to need some de-customizing because someone with more money than sense got a hold of it.
I have a friend who used to work for a luxury rentals place and they said theirs had to have the clutch replaced 4 times in 10 customers, I believe it was an early one though so maybe it was a problem that got fixed or theirs was the one they let the Lamborghini guys assemble rather than the Audi mechanicsWe've only ever had a piston drop and a gear selection actuator break in almost 70k on our orange one. Never a clutch problem. They are troopers
That is kind of funny due to the legend of how Lamborghini started in the car industry.I have a friend who used to work for a luxury rentals place and they said theirs had to have the clutch replaced 4 times in 10 customers, I believe it was an early one though so maybe it was a problem that got fixed or theirs was the one they let the Lamborghini guys assemble rather than the Audi mechanics
I thought all lambos where all carbon fiber from the factory... Or is the just the frame? Sorry not a true petrol head just a casual petrol head
Frame is metal, body is aluminum and plastic for bumpers (at least for America and our crash safety stuff) the fake carbon is in the engine bay and interior. Not a lot of carbon in the lambos. At least not in 2009.I thought all lambos where all carbon fiber from the factory... Or is the just the frame? Sorry not a true petrol head just a casual petrol head
Yeah I was thinking of the Avadentor its 90% carbon the gaillardia was built of aluminum. Bah sleep dep brain
