hello

[Ultraboy94]

(i'm just introducing here, since i couldn't really find an appropriate 'introductions' forum and since i knew i would post here about 99.9% of the time i thought it would be okay here. if i'm wrong, please tell me!)

hi guys. i've been an big fan of gran turismo since the first game had just come out, and i've only discovered this site around 3 months ago, and registered today.

just to note, my current percentage completion on gt4 is 66.5, i'm the best in my school but comparitivley (i hope i spelt that right) to most of you guys i'm a noob!

just an opening question, when i tune a car and it gets to it's top speed it usually just decellarate (i hope that if that isn't a word you understand it ) a little, then go back up to it's top speed, and the process repeats. i find this annoying since all the other cars easily catch up with me even when at it's slowest 'decellarated' speed it's faster than thier top speed.

i apoligise if this is an abundunt question (and a long post) but is there any way i can get rid of this?

thanks,

ultraboy94

 

[Famine]

Yes. You need to tune the gearbox as well. You're hitting the rev limiter. Lengthen the gears a little and you'll reach the rev limit at a higher speed. Lengthen them too much and you won't have enough power to reach the rev limit.

 

[CraftyLandShark]

Also, if you don't want to increase the top speed per se (which can sometimes sacrifice lower-end acceleration), once you climb towards your top speed, scale your throttle back, maintaining just enough input to hold the car just a HAIR below the point where you hit the rev limiter. This can obviously be annoying though if you're trying to do it over the length of something like the Muslanne though, so Famine's reccomendation would definitely be easier. If you don't need a HUGE increase, you can just lengthen the top gear a bit rather than all the gears - a small increase won't badly interrupt the shift pattern, and power delivery in the lower gears will remain as urgent as it was before.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

G'day and welcome Ultraboy94, hope you have loads of fun here at GTP 👍