KTM X-BOW Super Lap: Streets Of Willow Springs
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Oh man...I have a feeling I'm going to struggle with this one. I am NOT good on this track with any car... I've run about 5 laps and only had 2 valid times. Best lap is a 1:15.xxx right now. Ugh...
EDIT: Oh thank you GT overlords! 1:13.589 and that is good enough for me...
EDIT 2: Crap...I almost forgot to say that I used @shaunm80's wonderful tune. My struggles were due to the inexperience with the track. I am overdriving every corner. Gotta go slower and smoother.. I really need to keep practicing on this track.
EDIT: Oh thank you GT overlords! 1:13.589 and that is good enough for me...
EDIT 2: Crap...I almost forgot to say that I used @shaunm80's wonderful tune. My struggles were due to the inexperience with the track. I am overdriving every corner. Gotta go slower and smoother.. I really need to keep practicing on this track.
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- 375
- Vienna
- Ema-Nymton
Same here: took me 3 hours to get a 1:13,998 (!), golded by 0,002 seconds and gone away in disgust!
Being from the country where this car is produced I can tell you it is pronounced "ix-box", nothing to do with a cross-bow!
Dunno why they have chosen that name.
Anyway, once had a great tune for this car which made it real fun to drive, but lost it or messed it up, and I can't find a driveable tune ever since!
- 720
- UK
- DD84UK
Pretty decent challenge:tup:
After about 40 miles and quite a bit of surfing thru the sand
See you on the beach!
GTsail
1:10.60x here. Seems that our friendly challenge starts again,
like in Brands Hatch. Hope to find the time this weekend to get under 1:10.See you on the beach, too
- 719
- Purgatory
- Colossusofroads
As of this writing I can tell you there are 5609 participants with the gold standard..I happen to know this fact because I hover just above that magical mark thanks to @shaunm80 and his fantastic tune.
I had a wonderful tune on there already that was great in the hills and everywhere else but really, really sucked at the wind blown, too close to the sun, area 51, Willow Springs track...
When's the next bus outta here?..
I had a wonderful tune on there already that was great in the hills and everywhere else but really, really sucked at the wind blown, too close to the sun, area 51, Willow Springs track...
When's the next bus outta here?..
- 1,751
- Old South Wales
- numbnuts70
Same here: took me 3 hours to get a 1:13,998 (!), golded by 0,002 seconds and gone away in disgust!
Being from the country where this car is produced I can tell you it is pronounced "ix-box", nothing to do with a cross-bow!
Dunno why they have chosen that name.
Anyway, once had a great tune for this car which made it real fun to drive, but lost it or messed it up, and I can't find a driveable tune ever since!
Sounds like an Aussie games console!!
They even make X-Bow with a screen!?!?!
- 922
- Naples
- MarchingSaint
Awesome music and the way you attacked that first turn too.
I really agree on this ,it was realy a tough one.This.
Finally a challenging car/track combo
My only complaint is that GT6 has a really nice number of tracks, they should vary more under different condition (see the FF time trial on Bathurst)
- 874
- Finland
- Sutuki
- Almu89
Are you kidding me?! You're 0.001 away from first place.... THAT is harsh...
One-One Thousandth of a second.
0.164 ahead of him now... That doesn't really matter though, as I always lose interest in these after a few days, so I'm not fighting for the top spot 👍
EDIT: To anyone curious
333BHP/750KG
No oil change
Sports computer, racing exhaust, exhaust manifold, catalytic converter, intake
Stage 3 weight reduction
+Suspension, transmission etc, no racing brakes though.
105/50
3.19/6.74
1/1
1/1
7/7
0.0/0.0
0.00/0.00
LSD 5/5/5
BB 7/7
Transmission: top speed 220km/h - final gear 3.400
3.276
2.377
1.916
1.596
1.365
1.135
That's my "2 minute tune"
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- Massachusetts
Yeah...I hear ya. Believe me, I'm not trying to put myself in your category, but I'm similar to you in the sense that I lose interest rather quickly. I'll play GT6 all night, but it's gotta be something else besides running the same lap over and over and over and over. Heck, I could even do the same A-Spec Seasonal Race over and over because at least I have a few cars that I've gotta avoid in the process of making credits every single time I do the race. Super Laps pay you once and that's it.
👎Seriously though... That's one heck of a time @Sutuki! I'm sure if you wanted to put the time into it you would do even better. You must have been shocked when you first realized you were one one-thousandth of a second behind that dude.
- 874
- Finland
- Sutuki
- Almu89
Yeah...I hear ya. Believe me, I'm not trying to put myself in your category, but I'm similar to you in the sense that I lose interest rather quickly. I'll play GT6 all night, but it's gotta be something else besides running the same lap over and over and over and over. Heck, I could even do the same A-Spec Seasonal Race over and over because at least I have a few cars that I've gotta avoid in the process of making credits every single time I do the race. Super Laps pay you once and that's it.
Seriously though... That's one heck of a time @Sutuki! I'm sure if you wanted to put the time into it you would do even better. You must have been shocked when you first realized you were one one-thousandth of a second behind that dude.
I was actually expecting to be 5th-10th today (I was first yesterday). There's definitely room for improvement, I'm not smooth enough yet.
I've edited my earlier post to show the tune I'm using. If you can call it that
. It's for the DS3, not sure how it works with a wheel.
- 5,161
- Massachusetts
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- 922
- Naples
- MarchingSaint
why no camber or toe? i thought those 2 went well with slightly elevated turns and parabola alike0.164 ahead of him now... That doesn't really matter though, as I always lose interest in these after a few days, so I'm not fighting for the top spot 👍
EDIT: To anyone curious
333BHP/750KG
No oil change
Sports computer, racing exhaust, exhaust manifold, catalytic converter, intake
Stage 3 weight reduction
+Suspension, transmission etc, no racing brakes though.
105/50
3.19/6.74
1/1
1/1
7/7
0.0/0.0
0.00/0.00
LSD 5/5/5
BB 7/7
Transmission: top speed 220km/h - final gear 3.400
3.276
2.377
1.916
1.596
1.365
1.135
That's my "2 minute tune"
- 11,207
- Adrian, Mich.
- cargorat323
- CargoRatt
Oh look, yet another event at Willow, what a surprise. 
Gold and done.
Gold and done.
- 874
- Finland
- Sutuki
- Almu89
Zero camber because I never found it useful
. I haven't tried different toe settings yet, might try something different when/if I use the wheel some time later. I have the car set up for maximum rotation, while trying to maintain a good grip level. It's certainly not something I would drive for fun
. One easy way to make the car easier to drive is to raise the ride height to max, this allows you to be much more aggressive with the throttle/brakes. You could also try LSD 5/5/20-40 to make it more controllable when off-throttle.
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- LMSCorvetteGT2's Mom's House
- GTP_LancerEvo7
That one was fun. 1:12.5 with a stock X-Bow R.
- 895
- Limbabwe
- DDDsprayshop
So i tried this tune in another account, and got the same problems that i had with my "X-BOW R"
Great tune, but missing something for my drivestyle.MY DRIVESTYLE!!nothing wrong with the tune!! The tune is very good.👍
1st of all, i'm using automatic transmission.
In a corner, when i'm comming out of the corner, the car start a slide when the gears change.
I changed Brakebalance to 10/7 (was 8/7)
and changed LSD to 5/5/22.
Traction at 2, but could try 1
abs=1
DS3=6
I got a better time then yesterday, with my X-BOW R, but same settings for LSD and Traction.
Took me three laps to beat my own time and get gold (unknown handling, had to get used to this car)
Yesterday it took me almost 1 hour to get a gold time with my own tune.
So thank you for these settings.
When i'm struggeling with an event, somehow your tuningstyle matches my drivestyle and i get gold much easy-er and faster.👍
Xiamoto
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- United States
I entered this event this morning to give it a try and WHOAH! The track conditions were very very BRIGHT SUNLIGHT and SUN GLARE ...........I could barely see the track. No chance of even being able to drive............almost as if there was an atomic bomb flash going off somewhere nearby in the desert (Actually, maybe there was some testing going on nearby ) . Anyone else have this problem?
The track conditions were very very BRIGHT SUNLIGHT and SUN GLARE ...........I could barely see the track. No chance of even being able to drive............almost as if there was an atomic bomb flash going off somewhere nearby in the desert (Actually, maybe there was some testing going on nearby ) . Anyone else have this problem? 
- 2,515
- London
- nowcontrol
Half a dozen laps in a stock X-Bow-R gave me a 1:12.365 now time for a tune up to see how much closer I can get to the top.
now time for a tune up to see how much closer I can get to the top.
- 448
- Oslo
- sagaper
I used this tune.
And according to my notes, the tunen made by @CRANK_U1. But I do not know where he posted it.
I've only changed some of the "power parts", and adjusted the final gear
X-Bow street version:
PP 580
Max power 343
Weight 775 kg
Front/rear WD. 40:60
Parts
Engien tune: Stage2
Sports computer
Isometric exhaust manifold
Power limit 90,9%
SUSPENSION
RH 80/75
SR 5.90/9.89
3/5
4/6
7/7
0.0/0.0
-0.05/0.35
Brakes 7/4
TRANS
reset to default. Max speed to 112mph
3.752
2.781
2.169
1.814
1.550
1.359
Final gear 3.10
LSD
50
40
15
Ballast 25kg
Ballast pos 0
Oil change, don't know.
I hope the tune will help someone...
And according to my notes, the tunen made by @CRANK_U1. But I do not know where he posted it.
I've only changed some of the "power parts", and adjusted the final gear
X-Bow street version:
PP 580
Max power 343
Weight 775 kg
Front/rear WD. 40:60
Parts
Engien tune: Stage2
Sports computer
Isometric exhaust manifold
Power limit 90,9%
SUSPENSION
RH 80/75
SR 5.90/9.89
3/5
4/6
7/7
0.0/0.0
-0.05/0.35
Brakes 7/4
TRANS
reset to default. Max speed to 112mph
3.752
2.781
2.169
1.814
1.550
1.359
Final gear 3.10
LSD
50
40
15
Ballast 25kg
Ballast pos 0
Oil change, don't know.
I hope the tune will help someone...
Same here: took me 3 hours to get a 1:13,998 (!), golded by 0,002 seconds and gone away in disgust!
Being from the country where this car is produced I can tell you it is pronounced "ix-box", nothing to do with a cross-bow!
Dunno why they have chosen that name.
Anyway, once had a great tune for this car which made it real fun to drive, but lost it or messed it up, and I can't find a driveable tune ever since!
W is an X in Germanic languages? Cross bow made sense as an open frame weapon of sorts with visible moving parts and high speed.
I also made it 13.8 too, found TCS 2 the cure, felt sluggish but faster than TCS 1.
I' ll give it to you in your own language (copied from GT6 Beyond the Apex in German version):
"""Der Name wird nach der mechanische Bogenwaffe "Crossbow" gelesen"""
So not definitely crossbow then? What does is-box translate out as?
Oh look, yet another event at Willow, what a surprise.
Yes, at least four already at this track,
400 CM 1:33.5 Streets of Willow
500 SH 1:20.0 Streets of Willow
526 SS 1:14.0 Streets of Willow
580 SH 1:14.0 Streets of Willow
Enough already!
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- Vienna, Austria
- GamingPete
Same here: took me 3 hours to get a 1:13,998 (!), golded by 0,002 seconds and gone away in disgust!
Being from the country where this car is produced I can tell you it is pronounced "ix-box", nothing to do with a cross-bow!
Dunno why they have chosen that name.
Anyway, once had a great tune for this car which made it real fun to drive, but lost it or messed it up, and I can't find a driveable tune ever since!
the official name is supposed to be pronounced "cross-bow"
however, its colloquially called "ex/ix-bow" (english = ex / german = ix)
and they probably chose it because when looking at it from the front, it does resemble a "crossbow"
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