How to tune my car to meet AI cars specifications...

[nurburgring]

This is a tricky question:

One thing I would like to know is how I can say in a race that my car has the same spec. than the other cars?

I'm bored to be in front of the race or far behind...

I would like just to compete with the other cars in a fair "spec "base"...

I'm not sure the automatic adjustment of the other cars let me be at the exact same spec. level...

How can I correct that... how do I know wich settings are the cars fit with?

Sorry for my bad english!

 

[Greyout]

sorry, you are playing GT4. None of the races have any of the rules or guidelines you find in a real normal series, other then drivetrain configuration, or maybe induction method (turbo or N/A). Strangely enough, these things are the only things that frequently vary on a real life grid.

not possible.

Besides, the AI cars are pretty far apart.

 

[JParker]

This is a tricky question:

One thing I would like to know is how I can say in a race that my car has the same spec. than the other cars?

I'm bored to be in front of the race or far behind...

I would like just to compete with the other cars in a fair "spec "base"...

I'm not sure the automatic adjustment of the other cars let me be at the exact same spec. level...

How can I correct that... how do I know wich settings are the cars fit with?

Sorry for my bad english!

The AI cars have stock settings for the car in question. The biggest problem seems to be that the only way to know what you are racing against is to join a race. A given race has 3-4 different lineups. So you could join, exit, join until the lineup is comparable to the car you are in and want to compete in.
One particular championship, I can't remember which, in the European theatre, or maybe one of the German Manufacturer races, with my SL55, there was a SLR McClaren (good competition), and a 1954 Citroen 2CV, an 11 HP car. I got a whopping 1 Aspec per race for the series.

 

[DuranDuran1984]

In GT1 couldn't you see what cars your opponents had, and what modifications (or maybe it was just horsepower) they had, before you started the race? Or am I misremembering? If it was like that, I wonder why they changed it.

 

[Greyout]

they told you the weight and HP

 

[DuranDuran1984]

Thats right! I wish they would have kept that feature in.

 

[KAuss]

I race JGTC cars with a 519 hp skyline and it seems to put me in the middle 3 positions the whole race... I never win because the tires never keep up for the whole race, but it's the most fun I've ever had with the AI cause there was always 5 cars in the replay...

 

[bossman88]

I go in arcade mode and set difficulty to 5

 

[ledhed]

Enter the manufacturers race with the stock version . Or enter the Opel race with a fully tuned version . The rest of them you have to use your experiance to determine what to run. Some of the series are no joke even with fully tuned cars.

 

[50/50]

I found that if you put n2 tires on any car, the grip levels are pretty much equal for you and the AI, it makes for some fantastic competition. Remember though that it can be frustrating slowly going up through the pack when you usually just jump ahead in the first turn...youll begin to like longer races more when you use these tires. also, you cant expect to win all of the events with a stock car, so mod it up to your best ability if needed . the aspec points vary, i can win over a hundred point races on most tracks (save nurburgring).

 

[Hyundai Racer]

One way I found to figure that out is to first watch the replay. Every replay gives you the name, model and power rating of a car. Say for example you see a Honda NSX ('97) with 280 PS. If you look that car up on the car chart (here)here you will see that the power to weight ratio is 4.82:1. To be competitive with that car (not too fast, not too slow), you need a car that is maybe +-5% within that same power to weight ratio. If you chose a Mazda Efini RX-7 Type RZ ('96) for your race car (supposing this car is also eligible for that race) you would notice that the Mazda has a power to weight ratio of 4.72:1, which is very close to that of the NSX. Your Mazda should be a close match to that of the NSX, but you must always take other factors into consideration such as drivetrain layout (FR vs FF for example), total horsepower (usually means more speed) etc. In the end the power to weight ratio is a pretty good indication of how similar two different car's performance will be. If you find a car list that shows weight (I know there is one somewhere) then it's even better... that way if the AI car has more horsepower than stock you can recalculate the power to weight ratio (while at the same time hoping that the AI cars still maintained the stock weight...) and better match your car to it...

I know the replay watching and car matching process takes time, but apparently it's the only way in GT4 right now, until people buiild up a database of which cars are more competitive without being overly fast in each race...

I hope this helps.