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[Matty]

I just play around with the settings once, and if my times are even .1 up I see it as a win and quit while i'm ahead..

All my tunes from other series aren't mine.

V8's I use Hiatch's (My Teammate)
IndyCar anarchy and toms.
TOCA, Furi's old tune..
And all else are stock.. If I actually knew what I was doing while tuning I'd be around .5 faster in all series I'd say.

 

[DrifterJoe]

I just play around with the settings once, and if my times are even .1 up I see it as a win and quit while i'm ahead..

All my tunes from other series aren't mine.

V8's I use Hiatch's (My Teammate)
IndyCar anarchy and toms.
TOCA, Furi's old tune..
And all else are stock.. If I actually knew what I was doing while tuning I'd be around .5 faster in all series I'd say.

I don't know what I'm doing with setups either really. I had some help with the NASCAR ones (rough ideas of what to change and in what direction, just not any actual numbers) and haven't touched them since I made them back in the december after the game came out.

EDIT: Something else, I originally had the IndyCar Indy power, weight, and transmission set so we lapped at the same speed as real life (2011 Indy 500 qualifying speeds/times of the pole position car), but LV advised slowing the cars down. We'd be going about 10mph faster round the entire lap if we'd stayed with the realistic speeds/times.

 

[Matty]

I don't know what I'm doing with setups either really. I had some help with the NASCAR ones (rough ideas of what to change and in what direction, just not any actual numbers) and haven't touched them since I made them back in the december after the game came out.

I can do NASCAR, all that takes in my opinion is some harder shocks, 10/10 RH, and max evey thing else apart from camber and toe and roll bars. Camber and toe stock and roll bars at 1.

This is what my Daytona setup would look like:

Ride Height: 10:10
Spring Rate: 18.0:17.5
Compression: 10:10
The other one that isn't compression: 10:10
Roll Bars: 1:1

And that's me basically..

Only reason I actually posted it is cause I think it's a very well known tune

 

[cgr-10]

I don't know what I'm doing with setups either really. I had some help with the NASCAR ones (rough ideas of what to change and in what direction, just not any actual numbers) and haven't touched them since I made them back in the december after the game came out.

EDIT: Something else, I originally had the IndyCar Indy power, weight, and transmission set so we lapped at the same speed as real life, but LV advised slowing the cars down.

For Indy I assume, you still have these numbers?

 

[DrifterJoe]

For Indy I assume, you still have these numbers?

I think they're somewhere in the abandoned original season 1 thread or the interest checks thread that came before.

EDIT: My NASCAR setups were all made less than a month after the game came out Matty, and nobody really had a clue about tuning back then, so I'm surprised they're still competative and winning today.

 

[cgr-10]

I'll sift through them Joe and look for it now 👍

 

[DrifterJoe]

I'll sift through them Joe and look for it now 👍

Go for interest checks first. It was from before me and LV did testing at Indy. (That's where he advised reducing the speed. Since slower speeds = less incidents on ovals usually, I agreed and thought it to be a good idea.)

EDIT: I think the power was set to 848bhp in the room settings and there was no ballast on the car, but don't know about transmission settings.

 

[Matty]

I think they're somewhere in the abandoned original season 1 thread or the interest checks thread that came before.

EDIT: My NASCAR setups were all made less than a month after the game came out Matty, and nobody really had a clue about tuning back then, so I'm surprised they're still competative and winning today.

Winning formula perhaps.

And mines as basic as it gets. Just stiffen everything up and it should work

 

[DrifterJoe]

Winning formula perhaps.

And mines as basic as it gets. Just stiffen everything up and it should work

Matty's winning bedroom philosophy right there folks! "Just stiffen everything up and it should work!"

 

[Matty]

Matty's winning bedroom philosophy right there folks! "Just stiffen everything up and it should work!"

nice one it works too.

I should be a campaigner for Viagra

 

[cgr-10]

All I can find is an early suggestion from you that 897bhp gets the most realistic solo times. No transmission settings.

 

[DrifterJoe]

I'll have a look myself and see if I find anything. It may have been before the idea of restriction transmission settings.

 

[Matty]

All I can find is an early suggestion from you that 897bhp gets the most realistic solo times. No transmission settings.

220mph sound realistic..

Or you could always do the distance time speed formula

Distance
---------------
Speed X Time

 

[cgr-10]

I found this in the interest thread...

So I believe that 690 KG and 897 BHP should be the settings used at Indy (assuming you want realistic solo laptimes. Drafting laptimes will be 1-2 seconds faster.).

 

[Matty]

I MAY HAVE FOUND ANARCHY'S GOLDEN TUNES

Now just to check my PS3's messages cause that's where we talked

 

[DrifterJoe]

That's what I just found too. Though that was before we did transmission restrictions.

I did originally do speed/distance/time calculations to work out the laptime of 2011's pole position/fastest practice speed.

EDIT: The fastest lap set was by Castroneves on Fast Friday, with a lap of 228.611 mph. Now to try and work out what that is in seconds once again.

 

[cgr-10]

I'm trying to find a precise calculator, ones I've found so far only give 39 seconds, no decimals.

EDIT: Got it, 39.3681846 seconds.

 

[Matty]

That's what I just found too. Though that was before we did transmission restrictions.

I did originally do speed/distance/time calculations to work out the laptime of 2011's pole position/fastest practice speed.

EDIT: The fastest lap set was by Castroneves on Fast Friday, with a lap of 228.611 mph. Now to try and work out what that is in seconds once again.

Great news joe, I found Anarchy's Indy tune, and HSR tune (HSR tune was our base tune for all road courses) so be watching out for us

 

[DrifterJoe]

I'm trying to find a precise calculator, ones I've found so far only give 39 seconds, no decimals.

EDIT: Got it, 39.3681846 seconds.

It's a pain trying to find a calculator that's precise enough. I was looking for one since I posted the lap speed and haven't been able to.

 

[cgr-10]

I just did the calculation on google, had to change the speed to 'metres per second' and the miles to metres and then you can just do 'Distance / Speed' using those units 👍

 

[DrifterJoe]

I just did the calculation on google, had to change the speed to 'metres per second' and the miles to metres and then you can just do 'Distance / Speed' using those units 👍

Do you remember the seconds part of your qualifying time so we can see how much slower we're going than realistic speeds?

EDIT: Never mind, I can work it out from replays. (Probably)

Nope, I don't have any saved Indy replays.

 

[cgr-10]

Do you remember the seconds part of your qualifying time so we can see how much slower we're going than realistic speeds?

EDIT: Never mind, I can work it out from replays. (Probably)

It'll be buried in the S1 thread somewhere, I was bragging about it for a while 👍

 

[Matty]

Do you remember the seconds part of your qualifying time so we can see how much slower we're going than realistic speeds?

EDIT: Never mind, I can work it out from replays. (Probably)

I thought we were about 42's.. Maybe slower..

 

[cgr-10]

My pole lap was 40.109.

So we're about a second down solo.

 

[DrifterJoe]

My pole lap was 40.109.

So we're about a second down solo.

Yep, 40.109. My best wasn't very far off of yours though- a 40.124.

 

[cgr-10]

Yep, 40.109. My best wasn't very far off of yours though- a 40.124.

How much more bhp do you think would be necessary? 897 sounds a sensible amount.

 

[DrifterJoe]

How much more bhp do you think would be necessary? 897 sounds a sensible amount.

The question is whether we want solo times to be realistic, or if we want to acheive these times only with the draft.

I think with a little more setup work we could reduce the time difference with our current settings a little more. We're currently 3/4 of a second slower solo (0.741), but we could probably get slightly closer to half a second, and the draft would make up the rest of the time in race conditions.

 

[cgr-10]

The question is whether we want solo times to be realistic, or if we want to acheive these times only with the draft.

I think with a little more setup work we could reduce the time difference with our current settings a little more. We're currently 3/4 of a second slower solo (0.741), but we could probably get slightly closer to half a second, and the draft would make up the rest of the time in race conditions.

Is it worth it? A quarter of a second difference is barely anything.

 

[DrifterJoe]

Is it worth it? A quarter of a second difference is barely anything.

Maybe we should just leave Indy as it is.

The fastest time in the race where 2 people were banned was a 39.383. (Only Indy replay I have)

 

[cgr-10]

Maybe we should just leave Indy as it is.

The fastest time in the race where 2 people were banned was a 39.383.

Well that's pretty much bang on, we'll leave it for now.

Time to get some sleep I think...